To: ietf-822(_at_)dimacs(_dot_)rutgers(_dot_)edu
Subject: Re: text/enriched
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 16:51:52 -0400 (EDT)
I don't feel strongly enough about the issues I raised to be the sole
person blocking a consensus. So unless someone else agrees with my
other points, the only issue I'd like to keep open is the verbatim
issue.
Because another person agrees with my view of verbatim and because
I've heard no substantive argument to include it in light of the
existing mechanism to do the same thing (multipart messages), I still
oppose the inclusion of verbatim.
Multipart messages don't necessarily do the "same thing". A MIME mail
reader might do any number of things (clear the screen, open another window,
etc.) before presenting the next part of a multipart message. Some MIME
messages are composed with the idea that the MIME structure of the message
should reflect the structure of the contents -- each chapter is a separate
multipart/mixed subpart of a toplevel multipart/mixed message, each section
a subpart of a chapter-level multipart/mixed, etc.
The point is that the MIME spec doesn't say enough about presentation
to allow such assumptions.
Perhaps the verbatim feature of text/enriched needs some tweaking, but I
think some such feature is needed.
Keith Moore