Internet Mail 2000

Internet Mail 2000 is a new Internet mail architecture proposed by Daniel J. Bernstein (and in subsequent years separately proposed by several others), designed with the precept that the initial storage of mail messages be the responsibility of the sender, and not of the recipient as it is with the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture.

Whereas the SMTP-based Internet mail architecture has a close analogue in the architecture of paper mail, this is not the case for Internet Mail 2000. Its architecture depends from various things that are unique to the natures of Internet and of electronic messages.

Over the years since Daniel J. Bernstein proposed it, several attempts have been made to design and to implement a real Internet Mail 2000 system, with varying degrees of achievement. There is, as yet, no concrete implementation of the system.

External links

• Daniel J. Bernstein's original IM2000 outline
• Jonathan de Boyne Pollard's detailed proposed specifications and elaboration of the system
• Other IM2000 information