- From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1993 19:20:15 +0900 (JST)
- To: NED@INNOSOFT.COM (Ned Freed)
- Cc: NED@INNOSOFT.COM, KLENSIN@INFOODS.MIT.EDU, luc@opus.spc.nl, harald.t.alvestrand@delab.sintef.no, ietf-charsets@INNOSOFT.COM, luc@spc.nl
> The only discussions going on in the 822EXT Working Group at present are > related to finalizing the base MIME specification, finishing the > richtext/enriched/simpletext specification(s), and (possibly) the > Content-Disposition proposal. > The only new discussions that would be appropriate for 822EXT at this > point would be fundamental changes to the specification. No such changes are > planned as far as I know. As exemplified as above two quotations, your opinion is full of self contradicitons. > (You have now heard this from an Application Area Director and from one member > of the Application Area Directorate. I recommend you to think much more consistently and logically before saying anything as an application area directorate. > > According to the "Subject:", with this thread, we are discussing on the > > general policy of this ML. > > Yes we are. This all started when a proposal was made to move MIME character > set discussions to the 822EXT Working Group. Wrong. You should read mails with the subject "general policy", and you'll find you are wrong. > > I don't think this ML is the place to make too much detailed discussion > > on features of MIME. Especially, what "charset" of MIME means should be > > determined by 822ext as it can not be determined by this ML, of course. > > I disagree. This list is precisely the right place for this discussion. It was > created in order to cover this issue among others, as a matter of fact. I must point out that there was no MIME specific discussion in the last BOF. > > You misunderstand IETF, then. > > I disagree and I have presented plenty of documentary evidence to back up my > position. I have seen no documentary evidence presented by you. > You, on the other hand, have only appealed to some esoteric logic > that frankly escapes me. Surely, logic escapes you. Masataka Ohta PS BTW, unlike area directors, an area directorate have, officially, no power over IETF, I think. Am I correct? --Boundary (ID uEbHHWxWEwCKT9wM3evJ5w)
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