Receipt Notifications for Internet Mail (receipt) ------------------------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 06/05/2000 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Ned Freed Urs Eppenberger Applications Area Director(s): Ned Freed Patrik Faltstrom Applications Area Advisor: Ned Freed 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 ------- -- ----------- ------------------------------------ RFC2298 PS MAR 98 An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications