At 3:00 AM -0700 8/16/96, Ned Freed wrote:
entirely misplaced. MIME exceeded its design goals and became a general data
structuring format before the first set of MIME RFCs were even out. There are
indeed it did and I agree that MUAs aren't the only place to look
for satisfaction of the implementation/use. But the use needs to be real.
The fact that RFC and I-D announcements use /alternative is a good start,
for believing the contruct is a good one. But what receiving software is
there that uses this contruct meaningfully? Is it used elsewhere? (For
reference, I really DO want the answer to be yes. I think is is a
marvelous construct.)
Perhaps we aren't, but it seems to me that you are reading an awful
lot into the proposed-->draft step of the process.
this step doesn't require implementation into production systems;
demonstration is fine. on the other hand, MIME ain't new and a lack of
implementation in production systems by now is not a good sign. no?
d/
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