I personally think it would be better if there were a common registry for 'headers' that included the list of which were useful in HTTP, EMail, NetNews, within particular multipart types, etc. I think it would help in future coordination between extensions of mail, news, other kinds of 'push', etc. Do you support using the same registry for HTTP and other applications of MIME? Larry -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
attached mail follows:
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards Working Group of the IETF. Title : Mail and Netnews Header Registration Procedure Author(s) : J. Palme Filename : draft-ietf-drums-MHRegistry-02.txt Pages : 9 Date : 24-Nov-97 Various IETF standards and e-mail and netnews software products use various e-mail and netnews header fields. This document specifies a procedure for the registration of e-mail and netnews header field names, to reduce the risk that two different products use the same header name in different ways (homonyms) or that several different header names are used with identical meaning (synonyms). Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, type "cd internet-drafts" and then "get draft-ietf-drums-MHRegistry-02.txt". A URL for the Internet-Draft is: ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-drums-MHRegistry-02.txt Internet-Drafts directories are located at: Africa: ftp.is.co.za Europe: ftp.nordu.net ftp.nis.garr.it Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au US East Coast: ds.internic.net US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-drums-MHRegistry-02.txt". NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with "multipart" MIME messages (i.e. documents which have been split up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on how to manipulate these messages. Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the Internet-Draft.
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