Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 18:12:05 -0500
From: Jacqueline Hargest <jhargest@ietf.org>
Message-ID: <200301282312.SAA11118@ietf.org>
| A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Applications Area.
[...]
| Enhancements to Internet email to support diverse service environments
| (lemonade)
| 1. An informational RFC will be produced on LEMONADE requiremens.
Fine.
| 2. Enhance the existing IMAP4 message retrieval protocol to satisfy
| the requirements for streaming playback of multimedia content.
What a horrid idea? How do "streaming playback" and "message retrieval"
possibly fit together at all? Is this yet another attempt to pervert
a protocol into meeting some other quite unrelated need, for the sole
purpose of getting through firewalls or similar? Drop this nonsense.
| 3. Enhance the exsiting IMAP4 message retrieval protocol to facilitate
| its use with devices that have limited capabilities such as mobile
| endpoints.
Fine.
| 3. Create a message notification protocol for the specific purpose of
| servers reporting message status information to other servers.
A second #3 ... This one looks more like a proposal for a solution,
than a work item. If the solution is already known, a WG isn't needed,
just publish it. Otherwise, indicate what problem needs to be solved,
for which this might be one solution, and see what alternatives are
offered.
| 4. Create a specification describing the use of Internet message
| services in environments where message delivery may take place
| using either Internet protocols or external protocols such as SMS.
Fine.
kre