This charter is a snapshot of the 41st IETF Meeting in Los Angeles, California. In addition, the group will review other RFCs related to messaging, and determine the applicability of each of these to the future direction of the messaging in the Internet. The group may choose to incorporate, deprecate, or write applicability statements for such documents, as necessary to produce a clear statement of requirements for overall interoperability of Internet electronic mail. The documents produced by the working group are intended to be submitted to the IESG for consideration as Internet Standards. Items appropriate for inclusion in documents produced by the working group include corrections, clarifications, and amplifications to reflect existing practice or to address problems which have been identified through experience with Internet mail protocols.
New functionality is expressly inappropriate.
The agenda was presented by Chris, and accepted by the group. 821bis Issues John Klensin, document editor, had not yet arrived, so the agenda point was moved to after Message Header Registry Issues. The group felt that it was absolutely necessary to include registration of HTTP and MIME headers in the document, else the entire effort would be meaningless. It is of less importance in which working group the issues are discussed. 821bis John Klensin, document editor, forwarded a strong hope that there would be no more open issues after the next revision of the document.