Re: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would it be different?

> I thought this might be a good list to ask a simple, but admittedly
> subjective question: If Mark Crispin was creating IMAP from scratch, in
> the world of today, would it still be a line based protocol like it was
> with RFC3501, or would he have gone with something more stateless, like
> a JSON-RPC paradigm, like JMAP?

In addition to mail-specific aspects, something like IMAP needs to
solve the problem of (concurrent) access to remote storage (over a
network).

Looking at current solutions to that problem in its generic form may
suggest stateful is the way to go. (In particular the evolution of
NFS.)

Regards,

	- Joel
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