This week's series of articles on sendmail.net is for the rest of us.
IETF membership is open to anyone who participates.
The RFC process itself is documented in RFC 2026 . Like all RFCs, it remains an ongoing work in progress, while at the same time serving as a definitive reference document. But it's the IETF that defines the Internet mail protocols that matter most to sendmail developers, administrators, and users. Digging into the RFCs themselves, one quickly learns that many of them refer to, extend, or supersede one another. As a result, it's not easy to read one without reading them all.