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Tentative annotations for IMAP

14-Jun-08

Experimental RFC 5257, by Cyrus Daboo of Apple, and Randall Gellens of Qualcomm, defines the ANNOTATE extension to IMAP, a protocol widely used for handling email messages.

Protocol fields as advertising space

01-Apr-08

Today, 1 April 2008, the IETF published RFC 5241, “Naming Rights in IETF Protocols”. Authored by Aaron Falk and Scott Bradner, of BBN Technologies and Harvard University, respectively, the document proposes protocol field naming rights as a new revenue source for the IETF.