Resending the announcement. RFC 7017 has been available since it was originally announced. On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 05:07:40PM -0700, RFC Editor wrote: > A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. > > > RFC 7017 > > Title: IMAP Access to IETF Email List Archives > Author: R. Sparks > Status: Informational > Stream: IETF > Date: August 2013 > Mailbox: rjsparks@nostrum.com > Pages: 5 > Characters: 9886 > Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None > > I-D Tag: draft-sparks-genarea-imaparch-08.txt > > URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7017.txt > > The IETF makes heavy use of email lists to conduct its work. This > often involves accessing the archived history of those email lists. > Participants would like to have the ability to browse and search > those archives using standard IMAP clients. This memo captures the > requirements for providing a service that would allow such browsing > and searching, and it is intended as input to a later activity for > the design and development of such a service. > > > INFORMATIONAL: This memo provides information for the Internet community. > It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of > this memo is unlimited. > > This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. > To subscribe or unsubscribe, see > http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce > http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist > > For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/search/rfc_search.php > For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html > > Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the > author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless > specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for > unlimited distribution. > > > The RFC Editor Team > Association Management Solutions, LLC >