Folks, A new version, at last.
PDF and HTML versions are at: <http://bbiw.net/recent.html#emailarch> Discussion of the major changes is at the end of the Introduction. d/ -------- Original Message -------- Subject: I-D Action:draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:00:01 -0800 (PST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Internet Mail Architecture Author(s) : D. Crocker Filename : draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt Pages : 48 Date : 2008-02-24 Over its thirty-five year history Internet Mail has undergone significant changes in scale and complexity, as it has become a global infrastructure service. The first standardized architecture for networked email specified little more than a simple split between the user world and the transmission world. Core aspects of the service, such as the styles of mailbox address and basic message format, have remained remarkably constant. However today's Internet Mail is distinguished by many independent operators, many different components for providing service to users and many others for performing message transfer. Public discussion of the service often lacks common terminology and a common frame of reference for these components and their activities. Having a common reference model and terminology facilitates discussion about problems with the service, changes in policy, or enhancement to the service's functionality. This document offers an enhanced Internet Mail architecture that targets description of the existing service, in order to facilitate clearer and more efficient technical, operations and policy discussions about email. A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt To remove yourself from the I-D Announcement list, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word unsubscribe in the body of the message. You can also visit https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/I-D-announce to change your subscription settings. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt". A list of Internet-Drafts directories can be found in http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt Internet-Drafts can also be obtained by e-mail. Send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ietf.org can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft. -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net
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