CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by Suzanne Smith/Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Minutes of the IFIP Electronic Mail Management BOF (EMAILMGT) Maria Dimou-Zacharova began the EMAILMGT meeting by requesting Urs Eppenberger to present a brief statement of purpose and meeting schedule for the group. Harald Alvestrand presented his document defining an electronic mail management model. He explained the need for a common language and precise definitions to promote communication between working groups and commercial partners. Particular care should be taken to ensure that his model document and the requirements document (produced by Working Groups 6.5 and 6.6 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), and edited by Emily McCoy and Ray Freiwirth) use the same terms and definitions. Harald reviewed each section of the document and discussion followed. Urs Eppenberger pointed out that the user agent title ``Users'' should be titled ``User Info'' because users are outside of the mail management system. This change would keep the document consistent. Further attention was also given to the ``Customer Services'' section. Under this section, aliases and mail exploders should be modelled because many electronic mail customers demand this service. Harald would like to add an appendix to the document, with examples from popular e-mail routers such as sendmail. Harald plans to finish the model document by the 28th IETF in Houston, and possibly publish it later as an Informational RFC. The newest e-mail management document is dated 2 July 1993. Copies of the document and the figures in PostScript can be obtained from nic.switch.ch as the following file names: /e-mail/ifip-emailmgt/docs/emgt-93-model-text.txt /e-mail/ifip-emailmgt/docs/emgt-93-model-drawing.ps Attendees Matti Aarnio mea@nic.nordu.net Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no Maria Dimou-Zacharova dimou@dxcern.cern.ch Robert Enger enger@reston.ans.net Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch Tim Goodwin tim@pipex.net Christoph Graf graf@switch.ch Jeroen Houttuin houttuin@rare.nl 1 Marko Kaittola Marko.Kaittola@funet.fi Erik Lawaetz erik.lawaetz@uni-c.dk Robert Reschly reschly@brl.mil Marjo Rottschaefer Marjo.Rottschafer@surfnet.nl Hugh Smith h.smith@cs.nott.ac.uk Suzanne Smith smith@es.net Aad van der Voort a.t.h.vandervoort@research.ptt.nl Paul Vetter Lea Viljanen Lea.Viljanen@helsinki.fi 2