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Re: Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard

Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu> Fri, 13 August 2004 20:25 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
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Subject: Re: Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard
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> A definitive authoritative specification for all variations of the
> mbox database format is explicitly not the objective, for several
> reasons. 

that's fine.  I fully support registering application/mbox as a media
type.

> For
> one thing, such a definition is outside the IETF's purview, the same
> as a definition for Outlook or Eudora or other vendor/platform-centric
> database formats would be. 

I have to disagree here.  Perhaps standardizing mbox would be outside
of IETF's purview, but I think it would be valuable for IETF to publish
a peer-reviewed Informational description of (1) existing practice for 
mbox files and (2) recommended practice for reading and writing mbox
files.  I just don't think that this should be critical path for getting
application/mbox registered.

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