How about if we just add the following paragraph after
the definition of the body-part syntax:
NOTE: In certain transport domains, the RFC 822
restriction that limits body-parts to printable ASCII
characters may have been removed.
^^^^^^^
Such removal should
be construed as locally extending the definition of
body-part to include octets outside of the ASCII range.
removed from what? I dont think this word is appropriate here.
Perhaps the following:
NOTE: In certain transport domains, the RFC 822 restriction that limits
body-parts to printable ASCII characters may be unenforced. Such
lack of enforcement should be construed as locally extending the definition of
body-part to include octets outside of the ASCII range, with an inter-domain
understanding of the semantics of these octets.
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dana s emery <de19(_at_)umail(_dot_)umd(_dot_)edu>