[Cbor] MIME tag 257 vs 36

Laurence Lundblade <lgl@island-resort.com> Tue, 15 September 2020 20:17 UTC

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Subject: [Cbor] MIME tag 257 vs 36
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Does this seem right?

MIME tag 257 can carry MIME messages that have any content transfer encoding. It is not necessary to use tag 36 for content transfer encoding 7bit, base64 and quoted printable. You cannot however use tag 36 with content transfer encoding binary. You probably can use tag 36 with content transfer encoding 8bit.

It is thus recommend protocols use tag 257 when encoding MIME messages. Use of tag 36 should be avoided. It’s primary use is in protocols that were defined before tag 257 was defined.

I don’t think this is an issue, but I have little bit of worry that tag 36 might give you some end-of-line canonicalization because it is UTF-8 that tag 257 won’t.

LL