Note that this serves both as a Last Call review and a
pre-telechat review, since the draft is on the IESG agenda
before the Last Call expiry.

Document: draft-ietf-eai-pop-07.txt 
Reviewer: Brian Carpenter
Review Date: 2009-10-17
IETF LC End Date: 2009-10-20
IESG Telechat date: 2009-10-22

Summary:  Almost ready, open issues
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I haven't reviewed this as if was a proposed standard; it strikes me as
significantly experimental, especially given the age of most operational
POP3 code. That being so, I have no major technical comments.

Major issues:
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I fully agree with Lars Eggert's DISCUSS; as Experimental, this cannot 
update RFC 1939.

Also, it has RFC 5335 as a normative reference. That is an Experimental RFC, so
there's no way the present draft could simply be elevated to PS.

Minor issues:
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I would have expected a reference to RFC 5198 (PS for UTF-8 in protocols)
as well as RFC 3629.

I wonder whether any French person has checked the examples such as

> > La Language commande a ete execute avec success

"Language" is not a French word. The French word for a specific language
such as French is "langue".

"success" is not a French word. It should be "succhs" (that's a grave accent
on the e, if UTF-8 didn't quite get through). There are four other accents 
missing in the sentence.  I know we can't yet use UTF-8 in drafts but in 
that case, I suggest either using the usual U+HHHH notation for the accented 
characters, or choosing an example language that doesn't need accents. In 
any case the examples should be checked by a native speaker. (Actually the 
sentence makes very little sense anyway: "The language ordered has been 
executed with success.")

The examples as presented would make the IETF look a bit silly in France.