The IETF Administrative Oversight Committee (IAOC), on behalf of the IETF,
announces this
Request for Proposals to develop the capability for IMAP browse and search of
the IETF mail
archives. The successful bidder will enter into a contract with the Internet
Society.
The IETF makes heavy use of email lists to conduct its work. This often
involves accessing the
archived history of those email lists. Participants would like to have the
ability to browse and search
those archives using standard IMAP clients. The principal requirements for this
access are captured
in RFC 7017. The service will use the set of archived messages maintained by
the web-based
browsing and archiving tool. That is the set that is being maintained for spam
removal.
The RFP can be found at: <https://iaoc.ietf.org/rfps.html>.
Proposals must be received via email at tmc(_at_)ietf-bids(_dot_)org no later
than July 7, 2012. All questions,
inquiries must be submitted by June 23, 2014. Responses to questions and
inquiries shall be posted
online at: <https://iaoc.ietf.org/rfps.html> by June 27, 2014.
The point of contact regarding this RFP is the IETF Administrative Director,
Ray Pelletier, iad(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org.
Ray Pelletier
IAD