Alexey Melnikov

Alexey Melnikov is currently co-director of the IETF Applications and Real-Time Area and is the Internet Messaging Team Lead at Isode. In his spare time he also tries to help maintain Cyrus SASL. Alexey is the author or co-author of 55+ published RFCs related to electronic mail and application layer security. In the past he co-chaired the Sieve, Kitten and Usefor IETF Working Groups. Since 1998 his areas of interest have included IMAP, email filtering using Sieve, mobile network optimizations of application protocols, application protocol and format design, real-time collaboration and security frameworks for providing authentication and data integrity/confidentiality. Alexey received a bachelor's degree with honors in computer science and mathematics from Moscow State University.

Roles

Chair of IOT Operations (iotops)	alexey.melnikov@isode.com
Chair of Crypto Forum (cfrg)	alexey.melnikov@isode.com
Chair of Revision of core Email specifications (emailcore)	alexey.melnikov@isode.com
Chair of Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (dmarc)	aamelnikov@fastmail.fm
Chair of Common Authentication Technology Next Generation (kitten)	alexey.melnikov@isode.com
Member of Internet Research Steering Group (irsg)	alexey.melnikov@isode.com
Member of The Tools Team (tools)	aamelnikov@fastmail.fm
Reviewer in Security Area Directorate (secdir)	aamelnikov@fastmail.fm
Reviewer in Internet of Things Directorate (iotdir)	aamelnikov@fastmail.fm

RFCs (60)

rfc3503	Mar 2003	Message Disposition Notification (MDN) profile for Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc3691	Feb 2004	Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) UNSELECT command Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc4314	Dec 2005	IMAP4 Access Control List (ACL) Extension Cited by 21 RFCs
rfc4422	Jun 2006	Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Cited by 68 RFCs
rfc4466	Apr 2006	Collected Extensions to IMAP4 ABNF Cited by 25 RFCs
rfc4549	Jun 2006	Synchronization Operations for Disconnected IMAP4 Clients Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc4550	Jun 2006	Internet Email to Support Diverse Service Environments (Lemonade) Profile Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc4551	Jun 2006	IMAP Extension for Conditional STORE Operation or Quick Flag Changes Resynchronization Cited by 13 RFCs
rfc4731	Nov 2006	IMAP4 Extension to SEARCH Command for Controlling What Kind of Information Is Returned Cited by 7 RFCs
rfc4752	Nov 2006	The Kerberos V5 ("GSSAPI") Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) Mechanism Cited by 6 RFCs
rfc4954	Jul 2007	SMTP Service Extension for Authentication Cited by 18 RFCs
rfc5092	Nov 2007	IMAP URL Scheme Cited by 6 RFCs
rfc5161	Mar 2008	The IMAP ENABLE Extension Cited by 7 RFCs
rfc5162	Mar 2008	IMAP4 Extensions for Quick Mailbox Resynchronization Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc5178	May 2008	Generic Security Service Application Program Interface (GSS-API) Internationalization and Domain-Based Service Names and Name Type Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc5182	Mar 2008	IMAP Extension for Referencing the Last SEARCH Result Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc5232	Jan 2008	Sieve Email Filtering: Imap4flags Extension Cited by 6 RFCs
rfc5255	Jun 2008	Internet Message Access Protocol Internationalization Cited by 9 RFCs
rfc5258	Jun 2008	Internet Message Access Protocol version 4 - LIST Command Extensions Cited by 8 RFCs
rfc5259	Jul 2008	Internet Message Access Protocol - CONVERT Extension Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc5337	Sep 2008	Internationalized Delivery Status and Disposition Notifications Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc5435	Jan 2009	Sieve Email Filtering: Extension for Notifications Cited by 13 RFCs
rfc5437	Jan 2009	Sieve Notification Mechanism: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP) Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc5465	Feb 2009	The IMAP NOTIFY Extension Cited by 6 RFCs
rfc5466	Feb 2009	IMAP4 Extension for Named Searches (Filters) Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc5490	Mar 2009	The Sieve Mail-Filtering Language -- Extensions for Checking Mailbox Status and Accessing Mailbox Metadata Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc5550	Aug 2009	The Internet Email to Support Diverse Service Environments (Lemonade) Profile Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc5788	Mar 2010	IMAP4 Keyword Registry Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc5802	Jul 2010	Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) SASL and GSS-API Mechanisms Cited by 14 RFCs
rfc5803	Jul 2010	Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Schema for Storing Salted Challenge Response Authentication Mechanism (SCRAM) Secrets Cited by 1 RFC
rfc5804	Jul 2010	A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts Cited by 6 RFCs
rfc5819	Mar 2010	IMAP4 Extension for Returning STATUS Information in Extended LIST Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc6047	Dec 2010	iCalendar Message-Based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP) Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc6133	Jul 2011	Sieve Email Filtering: Use of Presence Information with Auto-Responder Functionality Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc6134	Jul 2011	Sieve Extension: Externally Stored Lists Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc6196	Mar 2011	Moving mailserver: URI Scheme to Historic
rfc6237	May 2011	IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc6331	Jul 2011	Moving DIGEST-MD5 to Historic Cited by 1 RFC
rfc6455	Dec 2011	The WebSocket Protocol Cited by 22 RFCs
rfc6468	Feb 2012	Sieve Notification Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE
rfc6477	Jan 2012	Registration of Military Message Handling System (MMHS) Header Fields for Use in Internet Mail
rfc6533	Feb 2012	Internationalized Delivery Status and Disposition Notifications Cited by 7 RFCs
rfc6558	Mar 2012	Sieve Extension for Converting Messages before Delivery
rfc6657	Jul 2012	Update to MIME regarding "charset" Parameter Handling in Textual Media Types Cited by 5 RFCs
rfc6710	Aug 2012	Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Extension for Message Transfer Priorities Cited by 3 RFCs
rfc6758	Oct 2012	Tunneling of SMTP Message Transfer Priorities
rfc6839	Jan 2013	Additional Media Type Structured Syntax Suffixes Cited by 7 RFCs
rfc7162	May 2014	IMAP Extensions: Quick Flag Changes Resynchronization (CONDSTORE) and Quick Mailbox Resynchronization (QRESYNC) Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7281	Jun 2014	Authentication-Results Registration for S/MIME Signature Verification Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc7377	Oct 2014	IMAP4 Multimailbox SEARCH Extension Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7444	Feb 2015	Security Labels in Internet Email
rfc7613	Aug 2015	Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords Cited by 15 RFCs
rfc7804	Mar 2016	Salted Challenge Response HTTP Authentication Mechanism Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7817	Mar 2016	Updated Transport Layer Security (TLS) Server Identity Check Procedure for Email-Related Protocols Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7888	May 2016	IMAP4 Non-synchronizing Literals Cited by 1 RFC
rfc7912	Jun 2016	Message Authorizing Email Header Field and Its Use for the Draft and Release Procedure
rfc8098	Feb 2017	Message Disposition Notification Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc8265	Oct 2017	Preparation, Enforcement, and Comparison of Internationalized Strings Representing Usernames and Passwords Cited by 4 RFCs
rfc8398	May 2018	Internationalized Email Addresses in X.509 Certificates Cited by 2 RFCs
rfc8494	Nov 2018	Multicast Email (MULE) over Allied Communications Publication (ACP) 142

Alexey Melnikov

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