The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The IMAP COMPRESS Extension ' <draft-ietf-lemonade-compress-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Enhancements to Internet email to Support Diverse Service Environments Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Chris Newman and Lisa Dusseault. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-lemonade-compress-08.txt Technical Summary This document specifies an IMAP extension to compress IMAP commands and responses and gives some advice on how to implement that to the best possible effect. It does not create any IANA registry or define several compression mechanisms: The WG believes that in the long term, TLS compression availability will make this extension obsolete. However, if that should be wrong, the document leaves an option to define more mechanisms and a registry later. Working Group Summary There is consensus in the WG to publish this document. Document Quality Many members of the Lemonade WG, including Dave Criland, Ned Freed, Philip Guenther, Randy Gellens and Tony Hansen, have reviewed the document. Eric Rescorla (non-work group) has provided a security review and also gave valuable feed back. The protocol has been implemented by three servers and two clients and was shown to interoperate. The document has been checked manually and using idnits 1.118, and passed both checks. The IANA Considerations section is sensible and consistent. The (four-line) ABNF has been manually checked. Eric Burger shepherds this document. He has reviewed this document and believes the -06 version is ready for publication. The responsible AD is Chris Newman Note to RFC Editor Section 2, penultimate paragraph: OLD: IMAP clients MAY use either COMPRESS or TLS compression. NEW: IMAP clients MAY use either COMPRESS or TLS compression, however, if client and server support both, it is RECOMMENDED that the client chooses TLS compression. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
