Hi Barry,
--On May 30, 2012 9:39:18 AM -0400 Barry Leiba <[email protected]>
wrote:
At the instigation of some proponents, I am bringing the attached
working group charter proposal to the IESG. Short version: the
proposal is to develop a Proposed Standard for an IMAP MOVE protocol
extension, which will most likely support only UID MOVE, and to do it
on a very short schedule. An initial proposal for such a protocol is
here:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gulbrandsen-imap-move/
...and that's a likely starting point for the working group.
Again: a very short schedule. We have a good starting proposal and a
fairly simple task (but see below), along with several implementations
that are asking for this. The discussion and progress will be tightly
managed.
I seriously question the need to spin up a working group just for this one
proposal. I realize that there is significant controversy over the need for
this extension, but having a working group won't change that fact.
In my opinion this should be handled as an individual submission but with
an "experienced" shepherd "appointed" by the Apps ADs to manage the
development and consensus of this proposal - perhaps on a dedicated mailing
list, but maybe reusing imapext or some other suitable list. I would rather
not waste time looking over a charter and milestones and all the rest of
the WG setup overhead when there is just one document to deal with.
In any case, I am willing to volunteer to chair or be the shepherd as I
think this extension is important and long overdue.
--
Cyrus Daboo
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