RE: More on merged drafts.

[Frank Dawson <fdawson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lewis Geer wrote, in part:

I don't think an IETF working group should stipulate that it is going 
to create a standard that works with systems that don't handle internet 
standards perfectly.  If we can create an calendaring standard that 
uses internet standards but is backwardly compatible, that's cool, but 
we shouldn't make it the focus.   Sure, there are a lot of systems 
today that don't do internet standards perfectly, but they need to move 
up to the new world, and you can bet they are moving quickly to do so.

<FRD>But, this *is* a part of our IETF CALSCH charter. We had very broad consensus on the need to have a core object specification that was as useful outside of the IETF transport protocols as in side of it. Not sure that this is a constructive comment, in terms of moving our work forward.</FRD>

- - Frank

Lewis

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Mark Horton [SMTP:mark@lucent.com]
> 
> Good point, but I'm concerned about whether it will work with existing
> e-mail client code.
> 
> I have access to a lot of different e-mail clients.  Would you please
> compose a sample e-mail message with some recursive MIME in it and mail
> it to me - I'll try it out on some of the clients I have handy and see
> if they can handle it sanely.  Better yet, carbon the list, I'll bet
> there is an even greater diversity of clients among the membership.
> 
> I trust you'll also try the sample on Exchange.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Mark
>