Re: nonexistent-WG Last Call on MIME documents

Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com> Wed, 19 June 1996 21:41 UTC

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From: Erik van der Poel <erik@netscape.com>
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Subject: Re: nonexistent-WG Last Call on MIME documents
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Note: I'm not subscribed to this ietf-822 list.

The non-ASCII headers document that used to be called MIME Part 2 is now
called MIME Part 3. I think this would be confusing to many. Many people
use the term "MIME Part 2 headers" or "MIME-2 headers".

I would suggest either:

1. Call it MIME Part 2 as is it used to be, and give some other
document    the name MIME Part 3.

or

2. Don't give them part numbers at all. Just give them more
descriptive     names such as "MIME Non-ASCII Headers" or something like
that.


Erik