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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Also available at (with links, diffs, tracker):
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-email-arch
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