Re: comment for draft-moore-mime-cdisp-00

[Mark Crispin <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, 06 Aug 1997 08:30:05 -0700 (PDT), Ned Freed wrote:
> I-D draft-freed-pvcsc-03.txt, which was recently approved as a proposed
> standard.

I just read it.

The problem is that it uses character sets other than ASCII and Unicode.  This
is a serious burden, since it essentially requires that every application in
the world maintain character set conversion tables.  Actually, it's worse than
that; it uses charsets which are even more disgusting than character sets.

It is alright to encode 8 in 7.  I have no problem with that part of it.  The
problem is the idea of expanding the broken idea of charsets to yet another
place where it doesn't belong.

Language is also good.

The problem is only in the contination of charsets, which is against the
recommendation in the first paragraph of section 8.2 of RFC 2130.