From: Bruce Lilly (blilly@erols.com)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 10:22:49 CST
Henry Spencer wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Bruce Lilly wrote:
>
>>> - Use of non-ASCII character sets in article headers and bodies
>>
>>That's subsumed by the part that says
>> - Standardization of article bodies and the use of MIME in articles.
>>since MIME provides for non-ASCII character sets in header fields and bodies.
>
>
> It provides for non-ASCII character sets in *some* header fields. (Taken
> literally, 2047 makes it impossible to use its facilities in, for example,
> newsgroup names.)
As the part which you didn't quote clearly pointed out as the sole case
in the current Usefor draft where 2047 is inapplicable, and further
points out that changes to newsgroup names are *not* mentioned in the
Usefor charter *at all*, and therefore ought to have had no effect on
what should have been a timely adoption of MIME, including 2047, to address
the urgent issues which *are* delineated in the charter.