wg-amp4email Status Update 2019-12-04

[dreamofabear]

Highlights

• Held email mini-summit at ACS 2019 in NYC
• Outlook.com launches AMP for Email to developer preview
• VerizonMedia merged an OSS Java implementation of the AMP validator
• Gmail rolls out AMP for Email to Android

WG Meeting Notes (9/12, 10/17, 11/8)

• Working on unified sender registration process (shared form in review)
• Received feedback on proposed shared HTML/CSS whitelist standards
• Consensus on standardizing max email size (200KB), max template SSR size, etc. (#4)
• More discussion on "CORS for email" proposal (#7)
• New proposal for email sender authentication (ecosystem-friendly replacement for proxy assertion tokens)
• Discussed AMP validator versioning and mitigating version skew across providers
• Consensus on allowing limited CSS attribute selectors (e.g. useful for amp-selector)
• Proposed new component in AMP4EMAIL spec: amp-autocomplete
• Self-hosting AMP JS and rollout patterns
• New outreach channels for email senders and ESPs

Focus areas

• Standardizing AMP for email behavior across providers by using AMP4EMAIL spec as single source of truth