Re: AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06 (Section 2)

I agree with Alexey.  So the updated text looks like

"IMAP server MAY advertise this CAPABILITY before or after user has logged in. The client needs to be ready to handle this CAPABILITY irrespective of user authenticated state."


From: imapext [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alexey Melnikov
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2015 12:18 PM
To: Naren; S Moonesamy
Cc: Narendra Bisht; [email protected]; Barry Leiba; [email protected]
Subject: Re: [imapext] AD review of draft-ietf-imapapnd-appendlimit-extension-06 (Section 2)

On 10/12/2015 17:15, Naren wrote:

Hi SM,

We can rephrase that sentence to

"IMAP server MAY advertise this CAPABILITY before or after user has logged in.The client SHOULD

IMHO, this is not correct use of SHOULD. The client that doesn't support both is broken. I suggest you replace SHOULD with "needs to" or the like.


be ready to handle this CAPABILITY irrespective of user authenticated state"

We do not see any implications in this being advertised before user logged in.
Can you elaborate more about your concern on this.

Thanks

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 11:32 AM, S Moonesamy <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hi Naren,
At 07:52 10-12-2015, Naren wrote:
Our MAY means
(a) The IMAP server can advertise this capability before the user has logged in.
OR
(b) The IMAP server can advertise this capability after the user has logged in.

Based on the AD review [1] and the short discussion about that sentence in Section 2, my opinion is that the intent of the what is written in the draft is not clear.  What are the implications of (a) and (b)?  What if the IMAP server advertises that there is a limit which applies to all mailboxes before the user has logged in?

Regards,
S. Moonesamy (as document shepherd)

1. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/imapext/current/msg05633.html



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Thanks & Regards
-Narendra




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