At 7:32 AM 7/13/94, Jim Conklin wrote:
At 6:31 AM 7/13/94 -0400, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote:
I really don't think that MIME has to be more specific about the
interpretation of the right-to-left languages than the ISO character set
specifications. I think we could get away with saying that the
directionality issue is addressed by a separate RFC, but I don't think
we can cite it by number without having it go through the standards
process.
I think that it would be a real disaster if MIME standardization were
held up by this issue, and I strongly oppose changes which will further
delay MIME standardization.
Essentially MIME specifies an object framework for email. We've defined
some basic classes, but I think that is as far as we should go.
Mechanisms for defining and creating other derived classes exist, should a
consensus form about the need for them. In the meantime, UA designers
should be free to experiment.
john noerenberg
jwn2(_at_)qualcomm(_dot_)com
noerenberg.j (Applelink)
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