Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 15-Feb-93 Re: Text/Enhanced straw man
Bill Janssen(_at_)parc(_dot_)xerox(_dot_) (331)
-o It should be trivial to type.
Yes, but the intention should be to use a good composing agent.
People won't be able to type it exactly right.
Then it's too complex. I think this is a very important constraint.
I'm a little confused on the model here. If people type enhanced text
by hand, what will the Content-type say? Will people have to explicitly
tell their UA that "what I've typed is enhanced text"? Will the UA make
an intelligent guess, based on what the user typed? I'm not clear on
how this is expected to work operationally... -- Nathaniel