Call for Adoption: draft-reschke-rfc5987bis, was: Call for Adoption: draft-reschke-rfc54987bis

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2015-10-01 08:33, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
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> In message <[e-mail]>, Mark Nottingham wri
> tes:
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>> We're belatedly adopting this; Julian asked for a breather while he
>> finished other work, and now he's ready to commence.
>
> I think adopting the draft is a good idea.
>
> But I find some bits of the low level mechanics proposed troublesome.
>
> For instance it worries me a lot to use '*' as magic marker in
> fields which are historically thrown around fast and loose in all
> sorts of programming environments where it may or may not be a
> meta-character.
>
> Can we find a less overloaded preferably non-meta character ?

We could. But then we'd define something new, instead of just updating a 
specification of something that has been used for something like 15 
years already.

> ...
> But going even further:  I have a hard time coming up with a credible
> (ie: non-demented) scenario for having multiple different charsets
> in the same header.
> ...

I have a feeling of deja vu. We discussed this already.

Again: this is not new.

We can and should new ways to address this (and the JSON-in-field-values 
spec is one proposal). But this is not the spec to do this.

> ...

Best regards, Julian