I'm with you...
but you forgot one item in your list, re-negotiation of a transaction and
re-starting where it was left, like http and ftp does.
It is a pity after sending 2MB of attachments you have to restart from the
beginning if there is a connection drop. This item is not easy to implement,
but hey, if you want to revamp, then let's revamp fully... More and more
people are just attaching documents without thinking of the size, and soon
we will e-mail each other our holidays movies...
For PKI, I have spoken with a few about a global PKI with a DNS helper. This
DNS helper would help to locate publick keys or system that can answer for
public keys... I have to find time to write what could look like a RFC. I
spoke with Bill Manning about it and I saw that Paul Vixie was proposing
something like this in its bid to manage the .org
Cheers.
Franck Martin
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SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
Fiji
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-----Original Message-----
From: william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net [mailto:william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net]
Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2002 10:27
To: ietf(_at_)IETF(_dot_)ORG
Subject: Re: SMTP Working Group Proposal at smtpng.org
On Tue, 20 Aug 2002 14:04:27 PDT, william(_at_)elan(_dot_)net said:
I believe its time we start working within IETF on new version of SMTP
that would have more features and be more secure. I'v tried to point
this
out several times before on nanog and ietf hoping that someone would
take
the initiave but as this did not happen, I'm willing to do it now. At
this
point I'm proposing creation of IETF working group that would look into
ways to extend SMTP. I'v created website and mailing list to discuss
charter of the proposed working group at http://www.smtpng.org
1. General extensions on SMTP negotiation This group will work on
extensions to general SMTP syntax with primary focus on mechanism for
negotiation on type of verification and security for transmission of
mail
message between two mail servers.
EHLO - a done deal a decade ago.
It it seriously not capable of handling what is needed, particularly any
kind of verification, callback, exchange of certificates, etc, etc.