Second, there is a lot of confusion in the market now, which the
adoption of the standard would help resolve. A number of clients support
a variant of Nathaniel Borenstein's draft of a PGP + MIME integration,
since withdrawn. Still others support nonstandard MIME embeddings, which
work as long as the same client is used, but do not truly interoperate.
Standardizing on a single PGP/MIME format would truly increase the
interoperability of implementations. The IETF has a positive role to
play here.
I agree completely, and for the record I want to state that I fully
support the Elkins document and very much want to see it moved onto the
standards track. My older draft was withdrawn precisely because I
became convinced of the wisdom of this other approach. -- Nathaniel
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