Let me put this another way. I see my position as giving you exactly the
services you want in exactly the form you want them. However, I see your
position as being unwilling to let me have the services I know I need,
despite
the fact that you are under absolutely no obligation to support or use them.
No, what I was suggesting was that you not force OTHER implementors to
implement the services YOU think you need, but they might not think THEY need
or trheir users need. As it stands now, anyone wishing to support the use of
MIME cum security would be forced to implement everything, whether they wanted
to or not, or develop an entire parallel series of documents. That doesn't
seem
to be a very useful way to move forward.
On the contrary, I think it is the only way to create a useful service.
The purpose of having the option would be to at least unstick this discussion
and let you go about your business (which of course you are free to do in any
case).
It won't "unstick" anything as far as I'm concerned.
Ned