Re: Armor versus MIME versus binary

["John W. Noerenberg" <jwn2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 3:45 AM -0500 10/24/97, William H. Geiger III wrote:
>
>>The term "packet" is used by the Ascii Armor and well known to the
>>public. Should we exchange it?
>
>The term "packet" is a well known and well defined in the PGP comunity. I
>see no reason for changing this now. I see little chance of a PGP "packet"
>and a network "packet" being confused for one or another as we are
>describing document formats here not network protocols.
>

My feelings exactly.   We've been talking about PGP "packets" since PGP 1.0
6+ years ago.  The meaning and context are clear.

john  w noerenberg, ii
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