The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Simple Mail Transfer Protocol' (draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5321bis-43.txt) as Internet Standard
This document is the product of the Revision of core Email specifications Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Andy Newton and Orie Steele. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5321bis/ Technical Summary This document is a specification of the basic protocol for Internet electronic mail transport. It (including text carried forward from RFC 5321) consolidates, updates, and clarifies several previous documents, making all or parts of most of them obsolete. It covers the SMTP extension mechanisms and best practices for the contemporary Internet, but does not provide details about particular extensions. The document also provides information about use of SMTP for other than strict mail transport and delivery. This document replaces RFC 5321, the earlier version with the same title, and supersedes RFCs 1846, 7504, and 7505, incorporating all the relevant information in them. Working Group Summary The EMAILCORE working group’s charter was to perform a "limited review and revision" of documents that describe a widely installed and used protocol. Participation in the working group was generally limited to a dozen or so individuals, owing in large part to the group’s work being focused on revising fifteen year old documents that are themselves fourth-generation revisions of originals first published in 1982. When reviewing this document, it is strongly suggested that you refer to: https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url1=rfc5321&url2=draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5321bis Progress through the WG was sometimes slow and occasionally contentious, but consensus was reached on all such issues. The document is ready to proceed. There is a fair amount of leftover editorial material in the form of comments that will be deleted before publication, to provide reviewers with background that may be useful prior to preparing the to-be-published version. Document Quality SMTP is ubiquitous. There are intentionally no breaking changes to the deployed base; this document refines and clarifies a number of things and resolves errata, finally advancing SMTP to full standard. No reviews are required that have not already been scheduled and completed. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Alexey Melnikov. The Responsible Area Director is Murray Kucherawy. RFC Editor Note: Please create a cluster to include this document as well as draft-ietf-emailcore-rfc5322bis and draft-ietf-emailcore-as. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
