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Message Tracking Working Group (msgtrk)
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   Charter

   Chair(s):

       Gordon B. Jones  <[email protected]>

   Applications Area Director(s)

        Keith Moore  [email protected]
        Patrik Falstrom [email protected]     
 
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    Description of Working Group:


     The Message Tracking Working Group will design a diagnostic
     protocol for a message originator to request information about the 
     submission, transport, and delivery of a message regardless of its
     delivery status.

     The group will produce two standards track documents: a message
     tracking model document and a protocol document. The model will
     state how message tracking is enabled, identify the entities 
     involved, define how and when message tracking requests are issued 
     and answered, define approaches for inter-domain message tracking, 
     and address security issues. The submission, transport, and delivery 
     of RFC 822bis messages will be tracked from the time such messages 
     enter the messaging network up until the time they are discharged
     (e.g. to an IMAP server, to an end-user's mailbox, or a proprietary 
     mail system).

     The group will design one or more protocols to implement message
     tracking as described above.

     Goals and Milestones:

     Oct  15 Post an Internet Draft of the message tracking model

     Nov 15 Post revised draft of message tracking model

     43rd IETF discuss protocol, finish model

     Jan 1 post final draft of model, post Internet Draft of protocol

     Feb 15 Post revised draft of protocol

     44 th IETF discuss protocol

     May 1 Post final draft of protocol