Internet Mail 2000

Internet Mail 2000 is a new Internet mail architecture proposed by Daniel J. Bernstein (and in subsequent years separately proposed by several others), designed with the precept that the initial storage of mail messages be the responsibility of the sender, and not of the recipient as it is with the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture.

Whereas the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture has a close analogue in the architecture of paper mail, this is not the case for "Internet Mail 2000". Its architecture depends on various things that are unique to the natures of the Internet and to electronic messages. One of its goals is to reduce spam.

Implementations

Over the years since Daniel J. Bernstein proposed it, several attempts have been made to design and to implement a real "Internet Mail 2000" system, with varying degrees of achievement. The closest thing to a concrete, open implementation of the system is Meng Weng Wong's StubMail, which was [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-985396858578246176 presented at Google] in July 2006.

A commercial implementation exists at [http://www.feed-mail.com/ feed-mail.com] , but it appears to be dead (the last blog entry - dated September 5th, 2005 - saying the beta would be delayed).

See also

Bernstein has also proposed the Quick Mail Transport Protocol (QMTP).

External links

* [http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html Daniel J. Bernstein's original IM2000 outline (2000)]
* [http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~brett/bschons/ Brett Watson's proposal (2002)]
* [http://vesuvio.ipv6.tilab.com/pipermail/ietf_censored/2003-September/003938.html JFC Morfin's proposal (2003)] describing weemail
* [http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/Proposals/IM2000 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's detailed proposed specifications and elaboration of the system (2004)]
* [http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~duan/publications/dmtp-tr.pdf Duan's, Dong's, and Gopalan's proposal (2004)] and subsequent [http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~duan/publications/draft-duan-smtp-receiver-driven-02.txt Internet Draft (2006)] describing Differentiated Mail Transfer Protocol (DMTP)
* [http://www.circleid.com/posts/hypertext_mail_protocol_aka_stub_emaill/ Nathan Cheng's proposal (2006)] describing Hypertext Mail Protocol (HTMP)
* [http://leventozturk.com/engineering/paidmail/ Levent Ozturk's Email protocol, added SMTP commands]