> Title : Internet Mail Architecture
> Author(s) : D. Crocker
> Filename : draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt
> Pages : 48
> Date : 2008-02-24
> Over its thirty-five year history Internet Mail has undergone
> significant changes in scale and complexity, as it has become a
> global infrastructure service. The first standardized architecture
> for networked email specified little more than a simple split between
> the user world and the transmission world. Core aspects of the
> service, such as the styles of mailbox address and basic message
> format, have remained remarkably constant. However today's Internet
> Mail is distinguished by many independent operators, many different
> components for providing service to users and many others for
> performing message transfer. Public discussion of the service often
> lacks common terminology and a common frame of reference for these
> components and their activities. Having a common reference model and
> terminology facilitates discussion about problems with the service,
> changes in policy, or enhancement to the service's functionality.
> This document offers an enhanced Internet Mail architecture that
> targets description of the existing service, in order to facilitate
> clearer and more efficient technical, operations and policy
> discussions about email.
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt
[...]
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-email-arch
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> Author(s) : D. Crocker
> Filename : draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt
> Pages : 48
> Date : 2008-02-24
> Over its thirty-five year history Internet Mail has undergone
> significant changes in scale and complexity, as it has become a
> global infrastructure service. The first standardized architecture
> for networked email specified little more than a simple split between
> the user world and the transmission world. Core aspects of the
> service, such as the styles of mailbox address and basic message
> format, have remained remarkably constant. However today's Internet
> Mail is distinguished by many independent operators, many different
> components for providing service to users and many others for
> performing message transfer. Public discussion of the service often
> lacks common terminology and a common frame of reference for these
> components and their activities. Having a common reference model and
> terminology facilitates discussion about problems with the service,
> changes in policy, or enhancement to the service's functionality.
> This document offers an enhanced Internet Mail architecture that
> targets description of the existing service, in order to facilitate
> clearer and more efficient technical, operations and policy
> discussions about email.
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-crocker-email-arch-10.txt
[...]
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http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-email-arch
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