Re: Comments on draft-ietf-smime-compression-00.txt

[Sean Turner <turners@xxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Jim.  Let's do it.

spt

Jim Schaad wrote:

> My personal opinion is that we have given the MIME people a lot of time to
> work on this issue.  They have not gotten anyplace that I am aware of so I
> think that we need to do it.  If we end up with two ways of doing this then
> the S/MIME draft could always say what is to be used for that application.
>
> jim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ietf-smime@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-ietf-smime@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Peter Gutmann
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 3:15 PM
> To: ietf-smime@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Comments on draft-ietf-smime-compression-00.txt
>
> Does anyone have any further thoughts on compression as a CMS content type
> vs a MIME type?  I think this was more or less beaten to death (and
> beyond :-) the last time it came up, but if anyone has any further thoughts
> please post them.
>
> (The password issues are being worked on offline, I'll post an update in a
>  day or two).
>
> Peter.