Re: smtp charter (reviesd)

[Ittai Hershman <ittai@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    This is why I think that Stef is "right on the money" -- if we're
    going to bother to change SMTP at all we should make sure that the
    change is large enought to cover the considerable costs involved
    in making any change, no matter how small.
    
    If we stay with rigid compatibilty and still want to change SMTP,
    then I want to support more than just 8 bit text; I want to fix
    my other big problem -- passing binary data.
    
    Call it creaping featurism if you want, but I think of it as meeting
    my customer's needs.
    
I have three comments:

1. It's deja vu all over again (pardon the lack of accents, but I'm
   using ASCII :-).

2. Hear, Hear!

3. This does not preclude doing some of the discussed things over SMTP
   as it now stands, and I think the IETF-822 group should continue
   working on that agenda.  The IETF-SMTP group should broaden its
   scope, however, and deal with the generic problem of sender-initiated
   binary data transfer -- be it 8-bit e-mail or any other form of
   un-encoded non-7-bit data.

-Ittai