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John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Mon, 18 March 2024 05:35 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2024, Rahul Gupta wrote:
> Based on the feedback you and Alexey have given, I have updated the 
> draft with a paragraph that makes it explicit that this specification is 
> optional. Existing recipients should and will simply reject this syntax, 
> based on the absence of "boundary" parameter in the `Content-Type` 
> header. Only if the recipient chooses to parse the message (after seeing 
> the parameters), do they need to process the multipart body according to 
> the proposed syntax. I hope this allays all backward compatibility 
> fears.

Unfortunately, that doesn't help at all.  Since you cannot predict what 
software the other end will be using, if you want to interoperate, you 
cannot use this syntax at all, ever.

If you happen to have a private agreement with the other party where you 
both know you can handle this, you can use it, but if you have a private 
agreement, you don't need a standard.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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