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Re: [apps-discuss] Pete Resnick's Yes on draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-10: (with COMMENT)

Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> Fri, 29 November 2013 17:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Pete Resnick's Yes on draft-ietf-appsawg-malformed-mail-10: (with COMMENT)
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> Everything in the diff you sent looks great. Just one outstanding bit:

> On 11/26/13 12:23 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> >
> >                 7.5 -
> >                 What's the difference between 3&  4? Or maybe I don't
> >                 know what "compound
> >                 instance" means in 3.
> >
> >
> >     You never did answer that question.
> >
> >
> > I thought I clarified that in the latest draft by explaining what was
> > meant by "compound instance".

> Could you give me an example of 3 (a compound instance) which is not a 4?

I don't know of any in RFC 5322, but I've seen content-disposition information
scattered across multiple instances of the header. But not often enough to
bother coding any kind of support to handle it.

That said, "3 but not 4" would appear to be sufficiently obscure that I have no
problem with combining them.

				Ned

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