Re: UTF-8 over RFC 2047 (Re: Call for Usefor to recharter)

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:14:39 -0800
Dave Crocker <dcrocker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> Folks,
> 
> Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 4:38:02 PM, you wrote:
> D.> Even with that (shortsighted) restriction, RFC 2047 was badly designed.
> D.> For example, you should have declared encoding in a separate header
> 
> 
> Had Dan been participating in the discussions, 10 years ago, no doubt he
> could have ensured that the design was perfect.

yep.  and so obviously perfect that he would have easily won consensus.

Keith