Re: IETF review of AS1

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> Another possible approach to the problem would be to create
> a new content subtype  example:

> Content-Type: application/x-zlib; uncompresse-type=xml

> Here we are expressing the contents of the body part as
> a compressed unit, which when uncompressed will give us
> an xml document.

MIME expressly forbids the creation of content types of this sort. See
RFC 2048, section 2.2.1.

The way to do this is with a content-transfer-encoding. As it happens I've
had this as a low priority task on my to-do list for some time; the 
work has gotten as far as

    draft-freed-newenc-00.txt

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