Update of RFC 1148

[Steve Kille <S.Kille@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RFC 1148 specifies a mapping between RFC 822 and X.400.   

There have been a number of bug reports/implementation problems, and I have
been meaning to update the RFC for some while.  A recent long flight enabled
me to work through the list of problems, and I will have a revised version 
shortly.   I plan to circulate the revised draft to the ifip-gtwy list
on 4th of March.  I would like to restrict discussion to this list, in the
interest of general sanity.

I know that this specification is of interest to quite a number of lists.
Please circulate this message widely, to ensure that it reaches all
intersted parties.  All those interested in this discussion should be
susbscribed to the ifip-gtwy list by 4th March.

I would like to solicit views as to how the editing should be progressed.
The following choices seems realistic.   I 

1) Online discussion only

2) A one day meeting at UCL, optionally with a videoconverence to the US
(BBN/DARPA/ISI)

3) A one day meeting somewhere in Europe, perhaps associated with a RARE WG1
meeting.

It might be appropriate for this to be discussed at the IETF St Louis meeting
(I won't be attending this tho, and so a detailed editing meeting is
probably not sensible).  I'd prefer to get this finished before the Atlanta
meeting (end July). 

My preference is to do the editing by online discussion, as the changes are
essentially bugfixes.   I will strongly resist any significant extensions,
although co-ordiantion with some of the SMTP extension work may well be
appropriate.

The current spec is not on the Internet Standards track.  I think that this
is a mistake, in light of its use by the IETF X.400 WGs.  I'd be interested
in comments on this.  


Steve