Re: New OPES Co-Chair

Alex Rousskov wrote:

> On Sun, 1 Aug 2004, Markus Hofmann wrote:
>>good news - Tony Hansen agreed to take on the vacant role as OPES
>>Co-Chair. His SMTP expertise will be very helpful for our planned
>>SMTP work.
>>
>>Tony will already be on board for the upcoming San Diego meeting on
>>Tuesday. Please welcome Tony.
> 
> Welcome, Tony! 

Thank you, Alex.

> I wonder if your work on SMTP message tracking would be
> directly applicable to OPES requirement to track OPES services.
> 
> It looks to me that OPES processors or services could use MSGTRK
> protocol to relay information about OPES adaptations performed on the
> message. We would probably have to define some OPES extensions for
> Per-Message MTSN Fields (Section 3.2 in draft-ietf-msgtrk-trkstat-05),
> right?
> 
> For example, we could define an extension field to list identifiers of
> OPES services that touched the message while it was in transit through
> an OPES MTA. Or am I completely off-track here?

At first glance, your analysis appears correct.

> What is the implementation status of MSGTRK RFCs?

The MSGTRK RFCs are in the RFC Editor queues at the moment.

I've been told that various vendors have committed to bring out 
implementations. I haven't seen any yet, however.

	Tony Hansen
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