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On 10/6/15 8:06 PM, R. Kent James wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid:56146217.3080409@caspia.com" type="cite"> One
of the goals that I have for Thunderbird is to be more engaged
with open and public internet standards. That would include not
only email protocols such as IMAP, but also related standards such
as the domain name system that ICANN represents. It we are going
to take seriously the role of being a promoter of open standards,
then we need to be engaged with the communities that develop those
standards. ICANN is one of those.<br>
<br>
:rkent<br>
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This caught my eye a bit and I was wondering if there's a list of
bodies we *are* involved in. Off the top of my head:<br>
<br>
* I think Joshua has offered opinions on a variety of mailing lists.<br>
* There was work with Google by Kent/Joshua about the OAuth
implementation.<br>
* There's been some work with the JMAP standardization via FastMail.<br>
* Philipp has written a couple RFCs [1] for calendar.<br>
* Patrick (me) has participated in IRCv3 [2] and plans to write a
spec.<br>
<br>
I'd invite anyone else working with standards body to let us know!
(Or to expand/correct upon my minor bullet points above. Sorry if I
misattributed any work!)<br>
<br>
FWIW I agree with Kent that pushing open and interoperable standards
for communication should be something that the Thunderbird community
strives for!<br>
<br>
--Patrick<br>
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[1] At least RFC 7095: "
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jCard: The JSON Format for vCard"
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7095">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7095</a>) and RFC 7265: "jCal: The JSON
Format for iCalendar" (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7265">http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7265</a>)<br>
[2] "We're a group of IRC client and server software authors working
to enhance, improve, maintain and standardize the current IRC
protocol." <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ircv3.net/software/clients.html">http://ircv3.net/software/clients.html</a><br>
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