- From: Ned Freed <Ned.Freed@innosoft.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 15:43:55 -0800 (PST)
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu>
- Cc: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>, Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>, http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com
> I've always found this one of the most annoying things about how > MIME was specified. If all message types must obey the same rules > as an RFC 822 message, then why would you ever need more than > message/rfc822? I agree that it is annoying. However, the minute you try and lift these rules you get into the area of nested encoding. Simply put, we could not reach consensus on a standard that allowed for this possibility. Even today my assessment of the present situation is that there is no chance of lifting these restrictions. Ned
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