From: Bill Davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
Date: Tue Aug 03 2004 - 10:46:25 CDT
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
> In <20040802030818.GA24297@dora.tertius.net.au>, on 08/02/2004
> at 01:08 PM, Thorfinn <thorfinn@tertius.net.au> said:
>
>
>>What quicker phasein? The situation remains identical - no software
>>out there parses the things, and no software out there will parse the
>>things, whether we say "MUST accept" or not.
>
>
> No, the problem does not remain identical, because putting that
> language in serves as a notice to correctly recognize the presence of
> MIME parameters and ignore them, as opposed to interpreting them as
> something other than MIME parameters.
Which is exactly why we shouldn't do this, because it is trying to make
a decision based on a total guess of what will be useful in the future.
For all we know the wave of the future may be metric hexadecimal
delimited with a umlaut.
Let some future RFC handle this.
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-bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me