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I found that IMAPv4 has a shortcoming: It forces users to download whole body (text/html + attachments). How to write and propose a RFC to address the issue? Please kindly share if you had experience of previously writing technical documents, proposals, especially RFCs. Thank you in advance.

+4  A: 

There's actually an RfC for that: RfC2223 - Instructions to RFC Authors.

Jörg W Mittag
+1 OK thanks :)
Viet
+1  A: 

You might find this site useful.

Darin Dimitrov
+1 thanks for the link
Viet
+1  A: 

The responses by Jörg W Mittag and Darin Dimitrov are perfectly correct but they forget to add that writing a RFC and having it adopted is a long process which requires time, dedication, a hard technical work and a lot of social interactions.

bortzmeyer
+1 thanks for the input :) I didn't know that there are lots of social interactions that need to happen.
Viet
For these interactions, RFC 4677 is a good start, more realistic than RFC 2223.
bortzmeyer