Re: draft-ietf-fax-esmtp-conneg-08.txt

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:43:43 +0900, Hiroshi Tamura said:

> I asked your comments as below, but nothing.
> Please comment NOW if there are things to suggest/discuss about the document.
> If not, FAX WG will request the IESG consideration again, sooner or later.

I suspect the flame wars on this topic from July of last year when the -03 draft was raised
have left a bad taste in everybody's mouth, and nobody wants to get involved again.

There was serious disagreement on the SMTP side of the fence as to whether it
was possible to implement this correctly - my re-reading of such mail as I saved
indicates a number of people who were quite resistant to the idea of an automatic
downgrading without any indication that information had been lost (for instance,
consider the case of a color fax downgraded to B/W - if the loss of color is significant,
this could be a problem.

In addition, it was quite unclear how this would interact with RFC1847-style signatures.

I have *NOT* checked if the -08 draft adequately addresses these issues.