From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Sun Aug 01 2004 - 12:37:27 CDT
In <20040801153005.GB17926@dora.tertius.net.au>, on 08/02/2004
at 01:30 AM, Thorfinn <thorfinn@tertius.net.au> said:
>No, just a totally pointless one.
Not pointless, because *IF* an RFC is accepted that adds a MIME
parameter, having the requirement here will allow for a quicker
phasein.
>If a future RFC wants to define a MIME parameter for an existing
>header, that future RFC will have *exactly the same problem with
>getting accepted and parsed correctly*, whether we say "MUST accept"
>or not in *this* RFC.
Not if some of the work has already been done as a result of this RFC.
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