From keld@dkuug.dk Tue Jan 29 17:23:56 1991 Received: by dkuug.dk (5.64+/8+bit/IDA-1.2.8) id AA13517; Tue, 29 Jan 91 17:23:56 +0100 Date: Tue, 29 Jan 91 17:23:56 +0100 From: Keld J|rn Simonsen Message-Id: <9101291623.AA13517@dkuug.dk> To: wg15rin@dkuug.dk Subject: ietf mail group X-Charset: ASCII X-Char-Esc: 29 FYI: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 14 Jan 91 18:21:04 GMT (Monday) Subject: Internet Mail Extensions Working Group From: gvaudre@nri.reston.va:us To: ietf@venera.isi:edu, tcp-ip@nic.ddn A new working group has been created in the Internet Engineering Task Force to extend the current suite of Internet mail protcols. This group resulted from an informal discussion at the December 1990 IETF meeting in Boulder Colorado. The group intends to develop and standardize a specification(s) to extend the internet mailer protocols, RFC 821 and RFC 822 to facilitate multiple character sets and multi-media mail. Preliminary discussion focused on eliminating the 7bit and the line length restriction in RFC 821 SMTP. Other changes include standardizing a header and message format for specific message body parts. Below is the charter for the new group. The next meeting is intended to be at the March IETF Meeting in St. Louis. Participation is encouraged on the working group mailing list. Developers and implementors of multi-media mail systems as well as developers of international character set based mail agents are encouraged to join this important standardization effort. Greg Vaudreuil Working Group Chair. Internet Mail Extensions (smtpext) Charter Chair(s): Gregory Vaudreuil, gvaudre@nri.reston.va.us Mailing Lists: General Discussion: ietf-smtp@dimacs.rutgers.edu To Subscribe: ietf-smtp-request@dimacs.rutgers.edu Description of Working Group: The SMTP extensions working group is chartered to develop extensions to the base SMTP protocol (RFC821) and the format of Internet mail (as defined in RFC 822). Among the extensions to be considered to SMTP are the elimination of the line length and 7 bit restrictions to allow the sending of arbitrary binary information. Among the extensions to RFC 822 are the definition of specific standard body parts and encoding formats. Body parts are intended to allow the sending of arbitrary binary files, the sending of structured mail, and the use of alternate encoding of international character sets for mailers that do not understand eight bit characters. Goals and Milestones: Mar 1991 Rewrite RFC 1154 to include specific types of body parts and encodings. Mar 1991 Write a document for the sending of 8 bit character sets through 7 bit mailers with the TEX-HEX encoding scheme. Mar 1991 Write a document specifying the elimination of line length restrictions and eliminating the 7 bit restrictions in SMTP. Jul 1991 Submit the three edited documents as Internet-Drafts. Oct 1991 Discuss distribution and deployment of mailers and user interfaces complying with the new SMTP and Message format. Oct 1991 Finalize the 3 above documents. Submit a recommendation to the IESG to forward the 3 above documents to the IAB and RFC Editor as Proposed Internet Standards. ----------------------------------------------------------------