FURTHER DEVELOPMENT

Beyond this documentation of existing implementations, further development of EMSD protocol is anticipated.

The following deficiencies and areas of improvement are identified.

• Mapping of RFC-822 to EMSD-FS needs to be more explicit.
• Mapping of EMSD-FS to RFC-822 needs to be more explicit.
• Text of duplicate detection section needs more structure.
• SubmissionControl operation needs more informative description.
• Based on implementor's feedback the "EMSD PROCEDURE FOR OPERATIONS" section needs to be adjusted or re-done.
• The EMSD protocol can be extended to also support transfer of raw RFC-822 text-based messages in addition to EMSD-FS. This would be a trade-off in favor of "ease of implementation" against "efficiency of bytes transfered".
• Provide mechanisms to support fully automated initial provisioning of mail-boxes.

Future development of the EMSD Protocol is anticipated to take place at http://www.emsd.org/. Those interested in further development and maintenance of this protocol are invited to join the various mailing lists hosted at http://www.emsd.org/.