Hi Alexey,

The YAM WG requests publication of draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03. The Document Shepherd Write-Up is below.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy
YAM WG Secretary

SMTP Service Extension for 8-bit MIME Transport
Document Shepherd Write-up for the IESG

1.a. The Document Shepherd for draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03 is S. Moonesamy. I have personally reviewed this version of the document and I believe that this version is reading for forwarding to the IESG for publication.

1.b. RFC 1652 was reviewed by participants of the YAM WG and a pre-evaluation I-D (draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-pre-evaluation-02) was submitted to the IESG. This document incorporates the changes that was identified during the pre-evaluation of RFC 1652, from the feedback received from the IESG and during reviews by participants of the YAM WG. I do not have any concerns about the depth or breadth of the reviews that have been performed.

1.c. I do not believe that the document needs more review from a particular or broader perspective as the specification is well-known to many participants in the YAM WG and there is already significant implementation and successful operational experience.

1.d. I do not have any specific concerns or issues with this document. I am not aware of any IPR claims.

1.e. The WG as a whole understands and agrees to the publication of the document.

1.f. There hasn't been any threat of appeal or any discontent about the document.

1.g. There are three instances of non-RFC2606-compliant FQDNs in Section 4. This is in accordance with the YAM WG Charter. draft-ietf-yam-rfc1652bis-03 is submitted for publication as "Full Standard".

1.h. There are only normative references in this document. RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 5321 and RFC 5322 are downward references. The YAM WG currently has the goal of also moving these documents to Full Standard.

1.i. There is an IANA considerations section and it is consistent with the body of the document. There is already a registration for 8BITMIME in the SMTP Service Extensions registry. The entry should be updated.

1.j. The document only contains an ABNF rule and it validates correctly in an automated checker.

1.k. Document Announcement draft

Technical Summary

This document defines an extension to the SMTP service (8BITMIME) whereby an SMTP content body consisting of text containing octets outside of the US-ASCII octet range (hex 00-7F) may be relayed using SMTP.

Working Group Summary

The YAM WG adopted a two-step approach to move this document to Full Standard. The first step was a pre-evaluation of the existing specification to identify changes and non-changes. The YAM WG requested feedback from the IESG on those decisions. The second step was to incorporate the changes into the document and ensure that any implementation that conforms to the Draft Standard version of the specification remains compliant with this document. There was no controversy. There is consensus to move the specification to Full Standard.

Document Quality

The document has a high degree of technical maturity. In the 16 years since publication, this specification has become an integral part of all professional SMTP software products and is widely supported in Internet Mail operations. Ned Freed rewrote part of the text in Section 3 as the Draft Standard version was published prior to the introduction of key words to indicate requirement levels.

Personnel

S. Moonesamy is the Document Shepherd for this document. Alexey Melnikov is the Responsible Area Director.

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