Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards (drums)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
 
 Applications Area Director(s): 
     John Klensin  <Klensin@mci.net>
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
 
 Area Advisor
     Harald Alvestrand  <Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no>
 
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Description of Working Group:
 
The goal of this working group is to develop and review revised
versions of RFC 821 and RFC 822, incorporating the revisions in RFC
974, RFC 1123, and RFC 1651.

In addition, the group will review other RFCs related to messaging, and
determine the applicability of each of these to the future direction of
the messaging in the Internet. The group may choose to incorporate,
deprecate, or write applicability statements for such documents, as
necessary to produce a clear statement of requirements for overall
interoperability of Internet electronic mail.

The documents produced by the working group are intended to be
submitted to the IESG for consideration as Internet Standards.

Items appropriate for inclusion in documents produced by the working
group include corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to
reflect existing practice or to address problems which have been
identified through experience with Internet mail protocols. New
functionality is expressly inappropriate.
 
 Goals and Milestones: 
 
   Aug 95 Issue one or more Internet-Drafts which identify problems with 
          existing messaging documents, and propose solutions to those problems
          with solutions that can be identified.                               

   Dec 95 Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.           

   Mar 96 Issue a first Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. 

   Mar 96 Issue a second Interent-Draft of the revised SMTP document.          

   Jul 96 Issue a second Internet-Draft of the revised message format document.

   Jul 96 Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised SMTP document.           

   Oct 96 Issue a third Internet-Draft of the revised message format document. 

   Dec 96 Submit documents to IESG for approval.                               


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.