The IESG has approved Critical Content of Internet Mail
<draft-ietf-vpim-cc-08.txt> for publication as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Voice Profile for Internet Mail
Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ned Freed and Patrik
Faltstrom.
Technical Summary
This document describes a mechanism for identifying body parts
that a sender deems critical in a multi-part Internet mail message.
The mechanism described is a parameter to Content-Disposition.
By knowing what parts of a message the sender deems critical, a
content gateway can intelligently handle multi-part messages when
gatewaying to systems of lesser capability. Critical content can
help a content gateway to decide what parts to forward. It can
indicate how hard a gateway should try to deliver a body part. It
can help the gateway to pick body parts that are safe to silently
delete when a system of lesser capability receives a message. In
addition, critical content can help the gateway chose the
notification strategy for the receiving system.
Working Group Summary
This document has been revised after an initial last call to align
it with the handling content-type parameter defined in RFC 3204.
This mechanism can be used in conjunction with both VPIM and non-VPIM
messages.
Protocol Quality
Ned Freed reviewed these documents for the IESG.
