The IAB has published a new draft document on “Report of the 2004 IAB
Messaging Workshop.” This document reports the outcome of a workshop
held by the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) on the future of
Internet messaging. The workshop was held on 6 and 7 October 2004 in
Burlingame, CA, USA. The goal of the workshop was to examine the
current state of different messaging technologies on the Internet
(including, but not limited to, electronic mail, instant messaging,
and voice messaging), look at their commonalities and differences, and
find engineering, research, and architectural topics on which future
work could be done. This report summarizes the discussions and
conclusions of the workshop and of the IAB.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-messaging-report-00.txt