Re: [apps-discuss] APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-appsawg-mime-default-charset-03

Barry Leiba <barryleiba@computer.org> Thu, 10 May 2012 13:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] APPSDIR review of draft-ietf-appsawg-mime-default-charset-03
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> On the other hand, the text/plain default is defined in RFC 2046, and we are
> not changing this right now. Do you think we should state that explicitly?

We do state it explicitly: it's the entirety of Section 4:

   4.  Default charset parameter value for text/plain media type

   The default charset parameter value for text/plain is unchanged from
   [RFC2046] and remains as "US-ASCII".

Barry