Dave Crocker <dcrocker(_at_)imc(_dot_)org> writes:
At 09:08 PM 11/26/97 +0000, Adam Back wrote:
My suggestions are:
1) armor MAY
2) MIME SHOULD (with update to rfc2015 where missing parts)
Ok. So you implement armor and I implement MIME. How do we interoperate?
I understand fully your point, and I agree. The difference is just
labelling.
The labelling problem I see is that people are planning to use OpenPGP
for different purposes.
What I meant above was:
2) MIME MUST if the data is transferred over 7 bit comms channel.
I'm not fussy, if people implement a full OpenPGP packet set but don't
plug it in to a MIME handler, it is true that they can't communicate
directly with people who send them MIMEd packets. If we say (as I
take your previous posts to argue):
2) MIME MUST (always, no exceptions)
this means the 8 bit only people are not allowed to call their
implementation OpenPGP complaint. Well I can live with a "that's their
problem", answer, and doesn't seem that big an issue.
Any other opinions?
Adam