Re: [apps-discuss] Encoding considerations (was Technical Errata for RFC 6839

Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> Tue, 19 May 2015 05:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Encoding considerations (was Technical Errata for RFC 6839
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> Am I missing some major installed base which only supports 8bit or 7bit?

It's called email.

> If not, I’d deprecate “Encoding considerations” and allow it to be omitted from
> media type registrations, the assumption being that “binary” is the default.

> The whole ‘Encoding considerations’ section seems like a relic.

It's the relic we're using to have this discussion, so...

				Ned