Re: OpenPGP mail/news header -02

[David Shaw <dshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 01:48:25PM -0600, Brian G. Peterson wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 03 November 2005 10:21 am, David Shaw wrote:
> > I have some concerns with this preference field.  There is already a
> > way to specify this preference on the key itself
> > ("preferred-email-encoding@xxxxxxx"). 
> 
> I'd like to see the preferred-email-encoding issue covered in an RFC or draft.  
> I think that the issues around user preference and interoperability really 
> need to be in an official RFC.  Hopefully we can take this up as 2440bis 
> winds up and moves on into the next stages.

I agree.  I think the current design is just fine, but documenting it
in an RFC is a good thing to do.

David