Murray, Bron,
Re:
> OK, then Alice, please proceed without the new text.


Ack.

Authors,
We await your replies to the following questions, as well as any further 
changes, for this document (https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9755.html and 
.txt and .pdf). This diff shows all changes from the Internet-Draft:
  https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9755-rfcdiff.html

On Feb 9, 2025, rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org wrote:
> 1) <!--[rfced] Regarding the term "UTF8-quoted": We note this term
> was also used in RFC 6855, which is the only RFC where this term
> has appeared in this form. Does it refer to the ABNF rule
> 'utf8-quoted' as defined in RFC 5738 (which is obsolete), or
> to another concept? Should it be replaced with 'utf8-quoted'
> or should the concept be written in prose?
> 
> Original:
>   All IMAP servers that support "UTF8=ACCEPT" SHOULD accept UTF-8 in
>   mailbox names, and those that also support the Mailbox International
>   Naming Convention described in RFC 3501, Section 5.1.3, MUST accept
>   UTF8-quoted mailbox names and convert them to the appropriate
>   internal format.
> -->
> 
> 
> 2) <!-- [rfced] There is one Verified Technical errata report for RFC 6855:
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid4029
> This document contains the old text from Section 3 mentioned in that
> report. Please review whether any updates are needed for this document.
> -->
> 
> 
> 3) <!--[rfced] Here, does "UTF8-related" mean related to
> the UTF8 data item or related to the UTF-8 character encoding?
> If the former, may the sentence be updated as follows?
> 
> Original:
>   This document removes APPEND's UTF8 data item, making the
>   UTF8-related syntax compatible with IMAP4rev2 ...
> 
> Perhaps:
>   This document removes APPEND's UTF8 data item, making the
>   syntax related to that data item compatible with IMAP4rev2 ...
> -->
> 
> 
> 4) <!--[rfced] Please clarify the "/" in "IMAP4rev1/2" here.
> Is the intended meaning "and" or "or" or otherwise?
> Original:
>   As of today,
>   an IMAP client cannot learn whether a particular message was stored
>   using the UTF8 data item, nor would it be able to trust that
>   information even if IMAP4rev1/2 were extended to provide that
>   information.
> 
> Perhaps:
> ... even if IMAP4rev1 and 2 were extended to provide that information.
> -->
> 
> 
> 5) <!--[rfced] In general in RFCs, the term "MIME type"
> should be "media type". Please review whether these updates
> convey the intended meaning.
> 
> a new MIME type -> a new media type
> 
> the MIME structure of a message
> -> the media type of the body of a message
> -->

[#6 has been addressed.]
[#7 asked for your review re: inclusive language; no open question.]

Thank you.
RFC Editor/ar

> On Feb 20, 2025, at 9:25 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy <superu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> OK, then Alice, please proceed without the new text.
> 
> -MSK, ART AD
> 
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM Bron Gondwana <br...@fastmailteam.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2025, at 16:59, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 3:01 PM Alice Russo <aru...@staff.rfc-editor.org> 
>> wrote:
>> Murray (as AD),
>> 
>> Re: https://www.rfc-editor.org/authors/rfc9755.html
>> 
>> Would you please offer guidance on whether to add the "Note that when" 
>> paragraph in Section 7 (pasted below)? My understanding is that we do not 
>> have consensus among the authors on whether to add it (specificially, the 
>> authors are 1 in favor, 1 against, and 1 OK either way). The WG chair (Bron) 
>> wrote "no strong preference either way".
>> 
>> If this is the aggregate position, I'm inclined to suggest one of two things:
>> 
>> (a) Do not make the change.
>> 
>> (b) Put the question to the working group (say, for a week) and have the 
>> chairs call consensus on the result of that discussion.  If the consensus 
>> answer to that question is ambiguous, default to (a).
> 
> I vote for (a) Do not make the change.  It's already been discussed in the 
> working group for over a week and the working group is generally unhappy with 
> the change as far as I can see.
> 
> So let's go ahead with it as-is and not add the text.  I think it's clear 
> enough without it.
> 
> Bron.
> 
> --
>   Bron Gondwana, CEO, Fastmail Pty Ltd
>   br...@fastmailteam.com
> 
> 

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