IMC mail-ng

IM2000 readers may be interested in the creation of the "mail-ng" mailing list 
at the Internet Mail Consortium. The list is brand new -- not open to traffic 
at the time of writing.

  http://www.imc.org/mail-ng/index.html

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There seems to be more discussion these days about replacing SMTP and/or RFC 
2822 and/or POP/IMAP for a variety of reasons. The discussion seems to pop up 
on a few different lists and in a few different hallways, and it might be 
good to have a single list where folks can congregate. Thus, I have set up a 
mail-ng mailing list.

The first task probably is to determine what the next generation of mail 
should do, and how that is different than what SMTP/2822/POP-or-IMAP or 
instant messaging does. It is safe to say that we can ignore actual protocol 
proposals for many months (if not years) until we figure out what is needed. 
Once we do that, there are plenty of protocol people who can attack the 
decided-on requirements.

There is no expectation that there will be significant agreement on the list. 
It is likely that over time the discussion will split into camps of 
like-minded design goals. The list might then spawn different lists for the 
folks of the different camps (mail-ng-shoe, mail-ng-sandal, ...). The list is 
explicitly not yet meant to be an IETF working group yet (if at all), and is 
probably more akin to the IRTF. But at the beginning, it will most likely be 
talking, not research.

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Regards,
TFBW