- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 21:09:00 -0500 (EST)
- To: highland.m.mountain@intel.com (Mountain, Highland M)
- Cc: skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com ('Williams Stuart'), xml-dist-app@w3.org
Highland, > I want to be sure I understand the AR given at the 3/6 telecon. It was my > understanding that the WG agreed to an SMTP/POP3 command appendix at the end > of the previously submitted SOAP Binding to Email document. > > Was there an additional task to develop a new SMTP Binding? That is my understanding. > Creating an > SMTP Binding was my original intent when crafting the W3C Note draft > proposal, but a sub team decided to not address email infrastructure > concerns. > > In any event, as originator of this activity and proposal, I would like all > document changes to go through me (which implies involvement by the TBTF). If you would like to be the primary editor on this, that's great with me. I only took it on because I was asked, despite my workload being a tad high at the moment. I would much prefer to hand off the editing. > Thanks, Highland > > PS Also, I have heard this concern before: > > >To do request/response with SMTP would necessarily be > > tunneling, and a major security issue. > > Please elaborate or point me to an email thread on the subject. Thanks > again. Here you go. http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2002Jan/0047.html Paul Prescod also had some good thoughts on this topic; http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/200202/msg00405.html MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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