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Purpose: Email remains one of the most widely used internet technologies, even in an era of increasing competition from other communication tools such as instant messaging. While many RFCs have updated and extended initial email specifications, the major inner workings of email remain widely unchanged since their inception. In particular, email is still mostly a text-based medium, which requires a lot of human attention, even though more and more so called "transactional" emails are authored in an automated fashion. Accordingly, the task of dealing with large amounts of email is still a major challenge for many users. The goal of "structured email" is to replace or extend text-based email messages with message parts that describe content in a machine-readable way. The proposed approach aims to enable novel ways of how users and automated programs can interact via email while retaining downwards compatibility with existing email standards, e.g., by specifying certain header fields and MIME body parts based on the Internet Message Format [RFC5322]. An additional discovery mechanism would help senders to determine which types of structured email an indented recipient is willing to accept. The purpose of this list is to provide a space to discuss requirements, existing solutions, and to identify areas for standardization. See also https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/bofreq-happel-structured-email and related documents for details. This list belongs to IETF area: ART For additional information, please contact the list administrators. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
