Editing Internet Mail 2000

{{Short description|Internet mail architecture}}
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'''Internet Mail 2000''' is an [[email|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 [[e-mail spam|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 presented at Google in July 2006.

== See also ==
Bernstein has also suggested the [[Quick Mail Transfer 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)]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060409144259/http://vesuvio.ipv6.tilab.com/pipermail/ietf_censored/2003-September/003938.html JFC Morfin's proposal (2003)] describing [[weemail]]
* {{cite web|author-first=Jonathan|author-last=de Boyne Pollard|url=//jdebp.uk/Proposals/IM2000|title=Fleshing out IM2000|work=Proposals|date=2004}} &mdash; Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's detailed proposed specifications and elaboration of the system
* [http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~duan/publications/dmtp-tr.pdf Duan's, Dong's, and Gopalan's proposal (2004)] and subsequent [http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-duan-smtp-receiver-driven 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://www.walrond.org/ Andrew Walrond's HeresyMail] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310194231/http://walrond.org/ |date=2007-03-10 }} (seems to be abandoned?)
* [http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV105Chrobok.pdf Chrobok's, Trotman's, and O'Keefe's proposal which extends SMTP with Internet Mail 2000 features] (General delivery)

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