The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Registration of Military Message Handling System (MMHS) header fields for use in Internet Mail' (draft-melnikov-mmhs-header-fields-08.txt) as an Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Pete Resnick. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-melnikov-mmhs-header-fields/ Technical Summary A Miltary Message Handling System (MMHS) processes formal messages ensuring release, distribution, security, and timely delivery across national and international strategic and tactical networks. The MMHS Elements of Service are defined as a set of extensions to the ITU-T X.400 (1992) international standards and are specified in STANAG 4406 Edition 2. This document describes a method for enabling those MMHS Elements of Service that are defined as Heading Extension to be encoded as RFC 5322 (Internet Email) message header fields. These header field definitions support the provision of a STANAG 4406 MMHS over Internet Email, and also provides for a STANAG 4406 / Internet Email Gateway supporting message conversion compliant to this specification. Working Group Summary The substance of the definitions in this draft is derived from the military messaging heading elements defined in STANAG 4406. The comments to date have consisted of corrections and minor amendments only. The decision was made by the authors to exclude support for the distribution extensions form of the Distribution-Codes heading extension. This is noted in sections 3.3 and 6. However, this MMHS feature is sparsely implemented and is not known to be in use within any major military organization. The decision was taken after the -01 draft to split the MMHS-Other-Recipients-Indicator header into two separate headers containing primary (to:) and copy (cc:) other recipients. This approach varies from the approach in STANAG 4406, but is more consistent with the RFC 822 style of address headers, and should be simpler for implementations to process. It is not expected to create a significant problem for gateway implementations. Document Quality At least three client implementations of this specification and one server implementation exist. One client implementation is the open source Thunderbird plugin. Another implementation is an Outlook plug-in that was prepared by one of the authors. Reviewers of the document are cited in Appendix A. Personnel Chris Bonatti <BonattiC@ieca.com> is the Document Shepherd. Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> is the AD. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
