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Re: [apps-discuss] Last Call: <draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc3462bis-01.txt> (The Multipart/Report Media Type for the Reporting of Mail System Administrative Messages) to Draft Standard

2011-10-08 09:11:27
26.09.2011 17:05, The IESG wrote:
The IESG has received a request from the Applications Area Working Group
WG (appsawg) to consider the following document:
- 'The Multipart/Report Media Type for the Reporting of Mail System
    Administrative Messages'
   <draft-ietf-appsawg-rfc3462bis-01.txt>  as a Draft Standard

The IESG has already approved draft-housley-two-maturity-levels, so Draft Standard isn't now available as a target maturity level. How is IESG going to handle this?

Now with respect to document's contents.  The Abstract says:

    The multipart/report Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
    media type is a general "family" or "container" type for electronic
    mail reports of any kind.  Although this memo defines only the use of
    the multipart/report media type with respect to delivery status
    reports, mail processing programs will benefit if a single media type
    is used for all kinds of reports.

I propose prepending the phrase "This document defines" and corresponding change in the 2nd sentence: "Although this document specifies...". This is how Abstracts are usually written in the current RFCs.

In Section 1:

   [OLD-REPORT] and its antecedent declared the multipart/report media
   type for use within the [MIME] construct to create a container for
   mail system administrative reports of various kinds.

I propose changing to:

   RFC 3462 [OLD-REPORT] and its antecedent specified the multipart/report
media type for use within the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
   [MIME] construct to create the container for mail system administrative
   reports of various kind.  It imposed limitations on multipart/report
   being the outermost part of MIME message.

Correspondingly, the second paragraph is to be changed to:

Practical experience has shown that such restriction, while well-intentioned,
  {current text}

In Section 5, it might be useful to provide a list of currently defined media types that may be used in multipart/report.

Thanks,
Mykyta Yevstifeyev
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