Background for those who may be unaware of GenART: GenART is the Area Review Team for the General Area of the IETF. We advise the General Area Director (i.e. the IETF/IESG chair) by providing more in depth reviews than he could do himself of documents that come up for final decision in IESG telechat. I was selected as the GenART member to review this document. Below is my review, which was written specifically with an eye to the GenART process, but since I believe that it will be useful to have these comments more widely distributed, others outside the GenART group are included.
This review was done as part of IETF Last Call. Review criteria: "Is this document a reasonable contribution to the area of Internet engineering which it covers? If not, what changes would make it so?" This draft is basically ready for publication as a Proposed Standard RFC, but has nits that should be fixed before publication. The formatting of this draft is awful, as it takes ragged right to a whole new level. The idnits checker is not happy about this or the lack of proper page separators, both of which are already covered in Bert Wijnen's nits Comment in IESG discussion. The table of contents is missing all of its page numbers. The first portion of Section 2 is unclear as to whether it is describing the elsewhere-specified behavior of IMAP vs. imposing new requirements. A check of RFC 3501 indicates that the entire notion of mod-sequence is new to this draft. The first sentence of the second paragraph is the problem - is should be rephrased to something like: An IMAP server that supports this extension MUST associate a positive unsigned 64-bit value called a modification sequence (mod-sequence) with every IMAP message. Beyond this, the draft is well-written with extensive examples that will be of great use to implementers. Thanks, --David ---------------------------------------------------- David L. Black, Senior Technologist EMC Corporation, 176 South St., Hopkinton, MA 01748 +1 (508) 293-7953 FAX: +1 (508) 293-7786 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: +1 (978) 394-7754 ---------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
