- From: Jeff Smith <jeffs@metamail.com>
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 14:25:58 -0400
- To: "'Bill la Forge '" <b.laforge@jxml.com>, "'xml-dist-app@w3.org'" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
>I'd also like to make this the basis for an extensible XML-P2P platform. >A mail application on top of that would be really exciting. I've been pursuing some ideas of my own on an XML-based P2P e-mail protocol. Mostly trying to get my head around how it would look and whether it would be appropriate to suggest to the XML Protocol group. I initially thought that e-mail had enough legacy foibles that a new XML-based protocol for e-mail would have to be considered in isolation from the XML Protocol effort. But now I am not so sure. There certainly do seem to be a lot of people in this group who see the overlap. It wouldn't surprise me to find that, whether we intend to or not, the results of these discussions will be the 'de facto' specification of a new e-mail communications protocol. Food for thought... Jeff Smith Chief Technology Officer Metamail, Inc.
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