Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail (receipt)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 06/05/2000

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Ned Freed  <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
     Urs Eppenberger  <eppenberger@switch.ch>

 Applications Area Director(s):
     Ned Freed  <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
     Patrik Faltstrom  <paf@cisco.com>

 Applications Area Advisor:
     Ned Freed  <ned.freed@mrochek.com>

 Mailing Lists: 
     General Discussion:receipt@cs.utk.edu
     To Subscribe:      receipt-request@cs.utk.edu
     Archive:           ftp://cs.utk.edu/pub/receipt/mail-archive

Description of Working Group:

There is a wide interest of e-mail users to know if and when a message
has been shown to a (human) recipient. This functionality is available
for a number of PC e-mail systems and within X.400. The receipt working
group will specify the necessary extensions to support this
functionality within the Internet Mail environment and optionally also
specify the necessary mappings for MIXER gateways.

The result of this work will be a Proposed Standard specifying:

o The mechanism used for requesting that the recipient issue a 
read-receipt.

o The format used for transferring read-receipts.

o The advice on the privacy and security issues involved in 
read-receipts.

 Goals and Milestones:

   AUG 95       Meet at Stockholm IETF (as a BOF) to define concepts and 
                basic functionality. 

   OCT 95       Submit first version of Internet-Draft. 

   DEC 95       Review Internet-Draft at Dallas IETF meeting. 

   JUL 96       Submit Internet-Draft to IESG for consideration as a 
                Proposed Standard. 


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  RFC   Stat Published     Title
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RFC2298 PS   MAR 98    An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition 
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