Re: New I-D Transfer Encoding for MIME

[Dan Wing <dwing@xxxxxxxxx>]

>> The MAILCAP stuff is about making the third alternative possible.
>
>Harald:
>
>Some of us blinked.  Can you post a reference/URL/summary of the current
>state of the MAILCAP work?

I didn't take detailed meeting minutes, but what I have is:

  This WG will focus on how to determine the capabilities of an
  email recipient.  Things such as public PGP or S/MIME keys,
  supported content types (PowerPoint, PDF, WordPerfect), sound,
  and other information.  This information could be used to generate
  a message that will be usable by the recipient.   Many problems
  were discussed briefly or offline, such as a recipient that uses 
  multiple access methods to their mailbox (pager, cellular phone, 
  Eudora, Netscape, etc.).

DNS was tossed around as a solution, but this is perhaps an over-abuse
of DNS.

Ned Freed was volunteered as the chair.  He may have been trying to
protest, but I couldn't hear it over the many people saying his name
when a volunteer was being requested.  :-)

-Dan Wing