CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by Suzanne Smith/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Minutes of the IFIP Electronic Mail Management BOF (EMAILMGT)

Maria Dimou-Zacharova began the EMAILMGT meeting by requesting Urs
Eppenberger to present a brief statement of purpose and meeting schedule
for the group.

Harald Alvestrand presented his document defining an electronic mail
management model.  He explained the need for a common language and
precise definitions to promote communication between working groups and
commercial partners.  Particular care should be taken to ensure that his
model document and the requirements document (produced by Working Groups
6.5 and 6.6 of the International Federation for Information Processing
(IFIP), and edited by Emily McCoy and Ray Freiwirth) use the same terms
and definitions.

Harald reviewed each section of the document and discussion followed.
Urs Eppenberger pointed out that the user agent title ``Users'' should
be titled ``User Info'' because users are outside of the mail management
system.  This change would keep the document consistent.  Further
attention was also given to the ``Customer Services'' section.  Under
this section, aliases and mail exploders should be modelled because many
electronic mail customers demand this service.  Harald would like to add
an appendix to the document, with examples from popular e-mail routers
such as sendmail.

Harald plans to finish the model document by the 28th IETF in Houston,
and possibly publish it later as an Informational RFC.

The newest e-mail management document is dated 2 July 1993.  Copies of
the document and the figures in PostScript can be obtained from
nic.switch.ch as the following file names:


     /e-mail/ifip-emailmgt/docs/emgt-93-model-text.txt
     /e-mail/ifip-emailmgt/docs/emgt-93-model-drawing.ps



Attendees

Matti Aarnio             mea@nic.nordu.net
Harald Alvestrand        Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
Maria Dimou-Zacharova    dimou@dxcern.cern.ch
Robert Enger             enger@reston.ans.net
Urs Eppenberger          eppenberger@switch.ch
Tim Goodwin              tim@pipex.net
Christoph Graf           graf@switch.ch
Jeroen Houttuin          houttuin@rare.nl

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Marko Kaittola           Marko.Kaittola@funet.fi
Erik Lawaetz             erik.lawaetz@uni-c.dk
Robert Reschly           reschly@brl.mil
Marjo Rottschaefer       Marjo.Rottschafer@surfnet.nl
Hugh Smith               h.smith@cs.nott.ac.uk
Suzanne Smith            smith@es.net
Aad van der Voort        a.t.h.vandervoort@research.ptt.nl
Paul Vetter
Lea Viljanen             Lea.Viljanen@helsinki.fi



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