>May I remind you that PGP dealt with the MIME integration issue over a
year
>ago? (And here we are, two years later and counting, and we haven't done
>squat.) True, the way PGP did it is now seen to be an error, and there's
a move
>on to use the security multipart mechanisms we're discussing with PGP,
but the
>old way does work and people do use it.
So why dont we just adopt it?
It doesn't interoperate well with existing MIME implementations in all cases.
In the case of PGP this isn't much an issue because of the way PGP is normally
used (i.e. mostly for encrypted messages). It is, however, a big problem with
some potential uses of PEM (i.e. MIC-CLEAR).
It works and users apparently use it. What more do we need?
We need to look at and see if anything needs to be addressed. The present
multipart security mechanism is in part a result of this examination.
Ned