RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-smime-x400wrap-00.txt

Chris,

> I'm going to have to check up on your other comments, but 
> this one has an immediate answer.  The reason that the ASN.1 
> encoding is a SHOULD and not a MUST is that X.400 allows 
> non-ASN.1 content.  
Fair point!

Maybe a better wording is to say that:

"this X.400 content SHOULD maintain the encoding defined by the 
content type" 

rather than implying that an ASN.1 encoding should be used if 
possible?

Graeme