- From: Martin Duerst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:23:46 +0900
- To: "Frank Ellermann" <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
At 22:49 08/03/14, Frank Ellermann wrote: > >Brian Smith wrote: >> RFC 2047 is so terrible that nobody wants to use it anyway > >Parts of RFC 2231 are seriously odd, but "nobody wants it" does >not cut it if the alternatives are HTTP/1.2 UTF-8 or a HTTP/1.1 >limited to Latin-1. Well, the alternative might be HTTP/1.1 with new headers in UTF-8. One can discuss whether this is strictly according to the rules for going to Standard, but then, as Paul has said, the IETF isn't a machine. Last minute fixes before going to Standard have happened. Even for Standard, or especially for Standard, the future is longer than the past. Regards, Martin. #-#-# Martin J. Du"rst, Assoc. Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-#-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp
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