Re: [EAI] WG Last Call to RFC5336bis, RFC5335bis, RFC5337bis

John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com> Fri, 23 September 2011 14:17 UTC

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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:20:13 -0400
From: John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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--On Friday, September 23, 2011 12:47 +0100 Tony Finch
<dot@dotat.at> wrote:

> John C Klensin <klensin@jck.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 	-- Absent an extension that specifies otherwise, RFC
>> 	5321 rather explicitly forbids transport of 8bit
>> 	material.
> 
> But any content transfer encoding is permitted for
> message/global parts, so this isn't a problem.

Sorry.  I should not have said anything ... I certainly do not
want to restart the discussion.  Because of how I read the MIME
spec, I am not comfortable with the above statement, but that is
one form of the discussion the WG had some months ago.

    john