Tim,
Your suggestion to use URIs in the Content-IDs is quite appropriate.
I did not use your
suggestion, which I acknowledge you made earlier and to which I did
not respond, for two reasons. First, it is important for me to have
the entire document self contained; second, I am unable to point to
URIs through an Internet standard, unfortunately we haven't gotten
there yet.
Is there any reason, however, that someone cannot use a URI in the
Content-ID. What language would you suggest that would open up the
usage to your proposal. From my point of view, URIs are useful. Another
way I think they can be used is as a Message/External-body. That way
is more general and URIs are available beyond SGML. Is there a proposal
for doing that?
Thanks.../Ed
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Dan,
1. We make the following correspondence between the terms of the SGML
standard and the MIME RFC:
....
SGML SYSTEM identifier => MIME Content-ID
I proposed in an earlier note that the SGML SYSTEM identifier
should be a URI and that a special form of URI (cid:) should
be used to specify a content identifier within a MIME
multipart message.
SGM SYSTEM identifier => URI
This allows SGML to reference anything in the universal
syntax, inclusing now URLs and later URNs, and
other parts of a MIME object using the cid: form.
I think this is important, as external references
are important too, and one will need to mix them.
Tim BL
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