The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ' <draft-klensin-rfc2821bis-11.txt> as a Draft Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Lisa Dusseault. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-rfc2821bis-11.txt Technical Summary This document updates the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport in such a manner as to move to Draft Standard. There are many useful clarifications and syntax corrections. Not all possible changes have been made, of course: changes were limited to those which can be made while moving a document to Draft Standard, and for which consensus could be demonstrated. Working Group Summary No working group is currently extant on this topic. This document was extensively reviewed and interminably discussed on the ietf-822 mailing list, which had been set up by DRUMS. Pointers to the discussions there were periodically sent to other mailing lists populated with email people, such as ietf-smtp, the EAI working group, the LEMONADE working group, and the IMAP-EXT working group. The current document represents consensus garnered on that list. One issue was particularly difficult to gain consensus on: that of implicit use of MX records. Since there was certainly not consensus to do anything new, this revision of RFC2821 is conservative in describing existing practice and avoiding making new requirements. Document Quality The current document represents implementation experience from the past 7 years in email. This document was reviewed for the IESG by Lisa Dusseault. Note to RFC Editor (1) Rename section 2.3, now called "Terminology" to "SMTP Terminology" (2) Create a new section 1.5, titled "Document Conventions" (3) Move the 2119 boilerplate from 2.3 to 1.5. That puts it closer to the front of the document, where it probably belongs anyway. (4) Create a new, second (i.e., after the 2119 text), paragraph of 1.5 that reads: Because this document has a long history and to avoid the risk of various errors and of confusing readers and documents that point to this one, most examples and the domain names they contain are preserved from RFC 2821. Readers are cautioned that these are illustrative examples that should not actually be used in either code or configuration files. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
