Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-asid-mime-direct-02.txt

[Harald.T.Alvestrand@xxxxxxxxxx]

The intermediate mode is to have code that has generic handling
for your datatypes, and a config file that lists the type for
each field. Not much extra code there.

The irritating thing about having fieldname + datatype is that
EVERYONE has to handle every combination of those that isn't
explicitly outlawed by the specs - the number of silly states
is rather high.

Grouping: You will get lots of parameters on the datatype line if
there are lots of interesting properties of the data. If you need
them, you need to provide a place for them in the other scheme too:

Location; datatype=text; language=german; charset=iso-8859-1:
      "at the boathouse"

Things get complex if we need them to be complex, or if we don't clean
them up by thinking hard about what we REALLY need.

IMHO, Properties doesn't have the guts to be a top level MIME type.
"Not interesting enough", I would say.


        Harald A