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Date: Thu, 01 Jun 1995 11:33:06 -0400
From: John C Klensin <klensin@MAIL1.RESTON.MCI.NET>
Subject: Re: RFC 821 problem list
To: conklin@info.cren.net (Jim Conklin)
Cc: Juan Altmayer Pizzorno <juan@vms.gmd.de>, mailext@cs.wisc.edu,
        drums@CS.UTK.EDU
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>>By the way, what takes the place of mailext now that this WG has concluded
>>their activities ...
>
>  I'm concerned about this, too.   I feel sure that there will continue to
>be mail-related proposals that will need review and an IETF WG "home".

Gentlemen,

IETF has a record with standing WGs, especially standing WGs whose purpose
becomes more or less sitting around waiting for proposals.  Many terms could
be used for that record, "success" isn't one of them.    Even mailext, which
never had an "add arbitrary items to charter" item in its charter, was not
as focused and effective as would have been desirable.

Also note the intro to the SMTP extensions doc itself -- more of these
extensions are not necessarily a Good Thing and it may not be in our
interests to make them particularly easy.

If there are proposals for new work, I-Ds should be written and then
discussions should be held with the ADs about how to proceed.  We will
figure out something; it won't be a standing WG.

    john