Taking the knife to METADATA

[Cyrus Daboo <cyrus@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,
There have been several discussions at the IETF meeting about METADATA. Its 
clear that implementers want a "lighter" version. Here are some proposals 
based on those discussions and other comments during last call:

1) Remove the dependency on LISTEXT. This basically means turning the clock 
back to the original ANNOTATEMORE extension. So the GETMETADATA command 
would be used to retrieve mailbox annotations as well as server annotations.

2) Remove attributes. i.e. 'value' and 'size' attributes will be removed. 
There will only be a value. The .priv and .shared suffixes will then be 
applied to the entry names.

3) Entries are case insensitive.

4) Wildcards not allowed in SETMETADATA.

5) Only register /comment for both server and mailbox annotations, and 
/admin for server annotations in this document.

Please comment on these so we can move forward with this extension, thanks.

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Cyrus Daboo