hhappel / draft-happel-structured-email

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Structured email updates #9

Open hhappel opened 1 year ago

hhappel commented 1 year ago

In human-readable messages, human language can be used to update or recall information that was conveyed in prior messages. Accordingly, there needs to be a machine-readable mechanism that allows to express the update or recall of information of structured data.

Initial suggestion:

Structured data SHOULD be updated, if a later email message with a SUPERSEDES header field ([RFC4021]; "superseding messing") referencing the message id of the original email message is processed. In this case, structured data of the original message should be fully revoked and replaced by the structured data of the superseding message (which might be empty).

Structured data in a superseding message MUST be ignored if: