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Re: New Internet Draft: draft-duerst-archived-at-00.txt

2004-02-23 11:33:35

1. I really don't think we should standardize a header field pointer to
mail archives that depends on HTML and HTTP.
  :
3. However, I don't think that we should limit such a standard to be
used exclusively with IMAP or any other protocol.  Clearly it's much
easier to deploy HTTP archvies than IMAP archives.

On this, we agree.

And there is nothing in Martin's draft that has any such dependency.

I think there is an implied dependency of sorts.  Without specifying how
to access archives in IMAP people are going to assume that HTTP is the
only thing that can be used.  The danger is that we will paint ourselves
into a corner where we are stuck with using HTTP.

Is this extension for email readers or for web browsers?



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