Re: nonexistent-WG Last Call on MIME documents

Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com> Wed, 19 June 1996 22:17 UTC

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From: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com>
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Subject: Re: nonexistent-WG Last Call on MIME documents
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> < the time has come to move on the next step of the MIME documents.

> The only problem I have with the proposed documents is the lack of treatment
> of the content-disposition header. Rfc 1806 needs to be moved into the
> standards track along with these MIME documents. The features of MIME which
> were removed in favor of placing them in the content-disposition header
> (e.g., Content-Type: name= -> Content-Disposition: filename=) are needed in
> the community, and we need a standards track method of dealing with those
> features.

I agree 100% that content-disposition needs to be taken care of.

				Ned