Re: [Slim] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-slim-multilangcontent-13: (with COMMENT)

Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm> Thu, 17 August 2017 13:12 UTC

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From: Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Slim] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-slim-multilangcontent-13: (with COMMENT)
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2017, at 01:59 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Alexey Melnikov
> <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm> wrote:>> Hi Ekr,
>>
>>  On Wed, Aug 16, 2017, at 12:10 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>  > Eric Rescorla has entered the following ballot position for draft-ietf-slim-multilangcontent-
>>  > 13: No Objection
>>
>> > As I understand it, this is designed so that if you have an MUA
>> > which
>>  > doesn't understand this document you get the preface as the first
>>  > thing you see. That doesn't seem crazy, but isn't the common case
>>  > that you have one preferred language that most recipients speak
>>  > and then some translations. Wouldn't it make sense to at least
>>  > allow people to have that be what non-updated MUAs display?
>>
>> According to MIME (one of RFCs 2045-2047) any unrecognized multipart>>  subtypes must be treated as multipart/mixed, so all body parts
>>  will be>>  displayed. Beyond that there is no control of which specific body
>>  part a>>  non compliant client will display.
> 
> Sure, but it seems like there's a clear assumption in this document
> that the> first part will be displayed first (otherwise why the requirement)
Can you point me to the specific text which is confusing or misleading?

> 
> -Ekr
>  
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>>  Alexey
>> 
>> 
>> > That seems at least
>>  > disfavored if not impossible (because I can't tag that one with
>>  > its actual language). Am I missing something?
>>  >
>>  >