Re: MIME implementation documentation

Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com> Fri, 16 August 1996 06:50 UTC

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From: Dave Crocker <dcrocker@brandenburg.com>
To: John C Klensin <klensin@mail1.reston.mci.net>
Cc: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com>, ietf-822@list.cren.net, Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
Subject: Re: MIME implementation documentation
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At 9:11 PM -0700 8/15/96, John C Klensin wrote:
> * Does "having an implementation" as IETF is prone to define
>it, imply that there are mechanisms to create specified relevant
>forms as well as reading them?

	create or otherwise map different data into different mime types.  yes.

> * Should one consider a particular MUA to be an
>"implementation" if it provides sufficient facility that a user
>can carefully hand-edit an outgoing message into conformity to a
>particular form or option?

	permit is different than require.  permit them to hand-edit, sure.
require it, e.g., in lieue of having the software, itself, do the work.  no
way.

>  * Do we consider that some form is "implemented" if, e.g., the
>"default if you don't recognize" option is taken?  For example,
>if few MUAs actually support receipt of multipart/alternative
>with tables of preferences rather than treating it as a variant
>on multipart/mixed, has "multipart/alternative" been
>"implemented"?  Following up the question above, if the only way

	no.

>And so on for any number of MIME features.
>
>Harald, I don't want to derail the train here, but I think I
>object to the idea of removing features that have not been
>independently implemented (whatever that means) and used only
>when a document comes up for full standard.  As I read the

	Yes, we need to audit functions not implemented and remove them
from the spec.  do you have any candidates for removal?

d/

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