Internet Message Access Protocol Extension (imapext)

Last Modified: 2008-06-17

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Chair(s):

  • Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>

    Applications Area Director(s):

  • Chris Newman <chris.newman@sun.com>
  • Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>

    Applications Area Advisor:

  • Lisa Dusseault <lisa@osafoundation.org>

    Mailing Lists:

    General Discussion: ietf-imapext@imc.org
    To Subscribe: ietf-imapext-request@imc.org
    Archive: http://www.imc.org/ietf-imapext/

    Description of Working Group:

    The IETF IMAP extensions Working Group shall revise and publish
    standards-track extensions to IMAP4 for performing the following
    functions:

    1. Sorting, threading, and viewing (to be dealt with by one or more
      mechanisms)

    2. Access Control Lists

    3. Message-level annotations

    Revising the base IMAP4rev1 specification is out of the scope of this
    WG. However, this WG will ensure that whatever extensions it does
    propose do not worsen any existing problems in the base specification
    of IMAP, nor do they make any such problems harder to address in the
    future.

    Goals and Milestones:

    Done  Submit revised Sorting/Threading/Viewing spec(s) to IESG
    Done  Submit draft on conditional storage to help multiple clients use a single mailbox to IESG
    Done  Submit I-D to *update* existing ACL RFC, explaining rights & listing rights in CAPABILITY response
    Done  WG last call for comparator draft
    Done  WG Last call for annotate draft
    Done  Submit to IESG: comparator
    Done  WG last call for i18n draft
    Done  WG last call for LIST extensions draft, defining syntax allowing much better extensibility in the frequently-extended LIST command, and supporting other drafts in this WG
    Done  Submit to IESG: annotate
    Done  Submit to IESG: i18n
    Done  Submit to IESG: List Extensions
    May 2008  New draft of ACL2 proposal which would *obsolete* existing ACL RFC
    Jul 2008  ACL2 to WG Last Call--note that if this milestone is not met we agreed to close the WG and defer ACL2 to another WG

    Request For Comments:

    IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL) Extension (RFC 4314) (56599 bytes) obsoletes RFC 2086
    IMAP Extension for Conditional STORE Operation or Quick Flag Changes Resynchronization (RFC 4551) (50265 bytes) updates RFC 3501
    Internet Message Access Protocol Internationalization (RFC 5255) (41403 bytes)
    Internet Message Access Protocol - SORT and THREAD Extensions (RFC 5256) (40779 bytes)
    Internet Message Access Protocol - ANNOTATE Extension (58786 bytes)
    Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 - LIST Command Extensions (RFC 5258) (65074 bytes)
    IETF Secretariat - Please send questions, comments, and/or suggestions to ietf-web@ietf.org.

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