Jim,
I acknowledge receipt of your messages regarding the changes
to the previous draft of the PEM-MIME I-D. The document in question
is moderately large and the responses to my written comments
(delivered over 3 months ago) were delivered two days before
Thanksgiving, while I was out of town on business. I am concerned
that there is insufficient time for me (who is about to leave again on
business) and for other members of the PEM WG to thoroughly review all
of the responses to the coments and the subsequent changes to the I-D
prior to our scheduled PEM WG meeting in one week. Thus, I ask that
you be prepared to present the revisions, and the underlying
rationale, at next week's meeting, but I do not expect to call for a
vote on the I-D at that time. After the PEM WG meeting has taken
place, the minutes are distributed to the list, and the WG members
have had a couple of weeks to digest the revised I-D, I will call for
a vote on the I-D (assuming no substantive revisions are required in
the aftermath of the meeting.) Thus I would expect a vote in late
December or early January.
Steve