The IESG has approved following document:
- 'IMAP Extension for Conditional STORE operation '
<draft-ietf-imapext-condstore-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard
This document is the product of the Internet Message Access Protocol Extension
Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Ned Freed and Ted Hardie.
Technical Summary
Often, multiple IMAP clients need to coordinate changes to a common
IMAP mailbox. Examples include different clients for the same user,
and multiple users accessing shared mailboxes. These clients
need a mechanism to synchronize state changes for messages within the
mailbox. They must be able to guarantee that only one client can
change
message state (e.g., message flags or annotations) at any time. An
example of such an application is use of an IMAP mailbox as a message
queue with multiple dequeueing clients.
The Conditional Store facility provides a protected update mechanism
for message state information that can detect and resolve conflicts
between multiple writing mail clients.
Working Group Summary
This document is a product of the imapext working group.
Protocol Quality
Ned Freed reviewed the specification for the IESG.
