MBOX-Line: From snowjn at aol.com  Sat Mar  7 09:36:36 2015
To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
From: John Snow <snowjn@aol.com>
Date: Fri Jun  8 12:34:53 2018
Subject: [Imap-protocol] If Crispin were creating IMAP today how would
 it be different?
In-Reply-To: <54FAEB94.4070508@lavabitllc.com>
References: <54FAEB94.4070508@lavabitllc.com>
Message-ID: <54FB3724.2070202@aol.com>

If he were around, this question would have started a fun argument.
I miss that guy.

snow.


On 3/7/2015 7:14 AM, Ladar Levison wrote:
> I thought this might be a good list to ask a simple, but admittedly
> subjective question: If Mark Crispin was creating IMAP from scratch, in
> the world of today, would it still be a line based protocol like it was
> with RFC3501, or would he have gone with something more stateless, like
> a JSON-RPC paradigm, like JMAP?
>
> For quick reference:
>
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501
>
> Or JMAP:
>
> http://jmap.io/spec.html
>
> Or my own bastardized protocol used for webmail to server access, which
> I created a few years back:
>
> https://github.com/lavabit/magma.classic/raw/master/docs/magma.web.api.pdf
>
> L~
>
>
>
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