Do cyrus devs plan to implement PUSH-IMAP protocol?

[Georg C. F. Greve]

On Monday 30 January 2012 12.12:52 crocket wrote:
> Is there any plan to implement PUSH-IMAP in cyrus IMAP?

Generally I'd be very interested in everything that improves performance for 
mobile devices with IMAP, but in this case I notice that the drafts went on a 
little longer, but then ultimately expired with draft 12, it seems:

	https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-maes-lemonade-p-imap-12.txt

That draft seems to have expired in 2006 with no RFC as its result, perhaps 
because in 2005 Nokia claimed to hold patents that apply to it:

	https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/604/	

Whether these are among patents that was provided to the patent trolls in the 
recent deals I do not know and did not check. [1]

In any case, as the draft expired almost 6 years ago and never turned into 
RFC, one wonders what Apple plans to do with this, which expired draft version 
it plans to support, whether there will be proprietary extensions and so on 
and so forth.

Personally I'd be strongly in favour of such technologies.

But since it seems to be a lot of work, and right now isn't clear whether this 
would actually provide compatibility with iCloud clients, nor whether this 
might open up litigation schemes against Cyrus users, I'd prefer to have those 
aspects clarified first.

Best regards,
Georg


[1] http://www.intomobile.com/2012/01/16/nokia-sells-over-450-patents-some-
them-deemed-essential-gsm-patent-troll/
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