Protocol Action: Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type to Proposed Standard

The IESG <iesg-secretary@CNRI.Reston.VA.US> Wed, 19 June 1996 17:08 UTC

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Subject: Protocol Action: Definition of the URL MIME External-Body Access-Type to Proposed Standard
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 12:11:48 -0400
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  The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft "Definition of the URL MIME
  External-Body Access-Type" <draft-ietf-mailext-acc-url-01.txt> as a
  Proposed Standard. This document is the product of the Mail Extensions
  Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Keith Moore and Harald
  Alvestrand.


Technical Summary

  This document describes how to use the MIME external-body body part
  to point at resources whose location can be given as an Uniform
  Resource Locator (URL).

Working Group Summary

  There was significant discussion over whether it was important that
  the spec give the possibility to give multiple URLs or not. There was
  also discussion on the best way to give long URLs in mail headers;
  the suggested solution seems workable.

Protocol Quality

  The spec has been reviewed for the IESG by Harald Alvestrand.

Protocol Action: Definition of the URL MIME Exter… The IESG