At 2:45 AM +0100 7/3/01, Lloyd Wood wrote:
I do like the 'extend [..] the iCAP protocol without being obliged to
retain any level of compatibility with the current iCAP proposal.'
Fine, since iCAP's just an individual draft -- but isn't extending
without being compatible something only Microsoft is generally
regarded as being capable of doing?
No, we have done it with SSL->TLS, S/MIMEv2->S/MIMEv3,
PGPorig->OpenPGP, vCalendar->iCalendar, and so on.
--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium