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.
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There's actually an RfC for that: RfC2223 - Instructions to RFC Authors.
Jörg W Mittag
2010-02-20 13:21:17
+1 OK thanks :)
Viet
2010-02-20 15:56:14
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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
2010-02-20 16:49:38
+1 thanks for the input :) I didn't know that there are lots of social interactions that need to happen.
Viet
2010-02-20 17:13:10
For these interactions, RFC 4677 is a good start, more realistic than RFC 2223.
bortzmeyer
2010-02-21 16:02:00