IETF notes: Lemonade

The LEMONADE working group is now working on a non-charter item, which is server-to-client notifications -- both in-band, and out-of-band -- of events such as new mail. There will be both a requirements draft and a protocol proposal. One use case discussed in the meeting was that the out-of-band mechanism should contain enough detail for the client to be able to display the new email in an email inbox listing (for example); thus it should include information such as the subject and sender and number of attachments.

Since it's very likely that the authors will propose some new IMAP-like S2C protocol, it's probably worth some effort to head that off at the pass and make a proposal to do XMPP-based notifications.

IMAPEXT

Todos for me from this meeting:

• Get notes from Ned and/or Larry
• Submit meeting notes & slides
• Find out what happened with blue sheets
• Do WG last call on i18n
• Watch for next revisions of annotate and listext and do WG last call on those
• Ask Jutta to review listext and annotate drafts. She made excellent comments in the mtg but hasn't commented on these yet so she's an ideal final reviewer.

Apps Area

AtomPub^? presented here because they cancelled their own meeting. There was some other complaining similar to mine about AtomPub^? not meeting -- all sorts of IETF people are interested in AtomPub^? and want to help and understand and inform, but it's too hard to do it on the list. It's precisely because the bulk of the AtomPub^? participants are not generally IETFers, that there's a particular need to hold an in-person meeting, and have IETFers meet AtomPub^? participants face to face and share information at a higher bandwidth. Besides all the technical information and sharing of use cases and such, it would have been an ideal time to do some culture merging, possibly in both directions.

-- LisaDusseault - 03 Aug 2004