The IESG has approved the following document: - 'SMTP Service Extension for 8-bit MIME Transport ' <draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03.txt> as a Full Standard This document is the product of the Yet Another Mail Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alexey Melnikov and Lisa Dusseault. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03.txt Technical Summary This document defines an extension to the SMTP service (8BITMIME) whereby an SMTP content body consisting of text containing octets outside of the US-ASCII octet range (hex 00-7F) may be relayed using SMTP. Working Group Summary The YAM WG adopted a two-step approach to move this document to Full Standard. The first step was a pre-evaluation of the existing specification to identify changes and non-changes. The YAM WG requested feedback from the IESG on those decisions. The second step was to incorporate the changes into the document and ensure that any implementation that conforms to the Draft Standard version of the specification remains compliant with this document. There was no controversy. There is consensus to move the specification to Full Standard. Document Quality The document has a high degree of technical maturity. In the 16 years since publication, this specification has become an integral part of all professional SMTP software products and is widely supported in Internet Mail operations. Ned Freed rewrote part of the text in Section 3 as the Draft Standard version was published prior to the introduction of key words to indicate requirement levels. Personnel S. Moonesamy is the Document Shepherd for this document. Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director. RFC Editor Notes 1) Please replace the Section 5 (Security Considerations) to read: This RFC does not discuss security issues and is not is not believed to raise any security issues not already endemic in electronic mail and present in fully conforming implementations of [RFC5321], including attacks facilitated by the presence of an option negotiation mechanism. Since MIME semantics are transport neutral the 8BITMIME option provides no added capability to disseminate malware than is provided by unextended 7bit SMTP. 2) Please change the section "6.2. Acknowledgements" to be a top level section. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
