This charter is a snapshot of the 42nd IETF Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. 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.
He'll put out one more minor revision, and then the document will be ready for last call. There was discussion about whether bare CR and bare LF should be allowed at any level in the grammar. Consistency with RFC822 is desired, but existing implementations differ as to what they allow. Discussion continues along the line of allowing them in the accept grammar but not in the generate grammar. No clear consensus emerges.