At 2:12 PM 12/20/93 -0800, David Goldsmith wrote:
UTF-7 is somewhat like a content transfer encoding. We briefly considered
proposing it as such, but 1) in MIME, new content transfer encodings are
explicitly and strongly discouraged
If it quacks like a duck....
Whatever you call that thing, it's a CTE, and falls under the discouragement.
Which doesn't mean it can't be a new CTE, if that's REALLY what is needed.
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