Re: quoted-phrase in content-disposition header

[Peter Svanberg <psv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ned Freed <NED@innosoft.com>:
> 
> Syntax is not semantics. The semantics of these parameters values is quite
> different from the semantics of RFC1522 encoded-words.
> 
> That doesn't mean we cannot use the same syntax, and the same syntax
> processors, for different functions.

OK

> We do have additional work to do here, however. For example, should we allow
> multiple character sets in the same parameter value?

In the case of a filename it shouldn't be necessary but if we
want this to be usable for other kinds of values it may be.

> > May main concern is that
> 
> >    THIS PROBLEM MUST BE SOLVED IN (or in
> >    parallel with) THIS DRAFT!
> 
> Parallel I can accept. However, we need the mechanisms this
> draft provides sooner rather than later.

I see that, but don't we need the *full* mechanisms, not just
part of it, with things needing to be changed later?

> > Note that files with non-ASCII names are not rare. At least on
> > Macs it is as natural to use non-ASCII letters in file names as
> > it is to use them in (other) text.
> 
> Sure. And this issue has been discussed endlessly in this
> group and elsewhere. It came up when MIME moved from proposed
> to draft, and we spent hours on it at a couple of different
> IETF meetings.

I know that you and several others knows about this, but
there are newcomers.

> > As I recall it, the conclusions of the agreements on the IETF
> > meeting when the MIME text was finalized was that it is
> > impossible to change the MIME-version field, ever.
> 
> This simply is not the case.

I quote from the archive:

    Subject: Minutes of the RFC 822extensions WG in Columbus
    Date: Wed, 07 Apr 93 17:49:46 -0400
    From: Greg Vaudreuil <gvaudre@cnri.reston.va.us>
    Message-Id:  <9304071749.aa18558@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
	:
	:
    MIME-Version: 1.0 Header Semantics

    The Working Group discovered that the MIME-Version header was
    insufficiently defined to be used for true versioning and that the
    interpretation of this header was not uniform across current
    implementations. Understanding that backward compatible changes to
    MIME were unliely and that changing the version in the current header
    will cause at least one implementation to fail to recognize the
    message as valid MIME, the Working Group agreed that this header
    should now be considered a string constant and any version specific
    notes should be encoded as an RFC822 comment in the MIME-version
    header line, a feature available in all other rfc822 headers.

OK, according to this you can put "notes" in the comment.
(Should "unliely" have been "unlikely"?)

> > 1522 was a special - and well justified - case of retroactive
> > change of an established standard. We should not deliberately
> > create a need to do such a change again!
> 
> Unfortunately it is too late for that.

What do you have in view?

Peter Svanberg