- From: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:36:15 -0500
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- cc: www-tag@w3.org, ietf-xml-mime@imc.org, mura034@attglobal.net
> It would be difficult for such a thing to happen without the IETF, but > making changes to MIME of any fundamental sort is intensely difficult. > Despite the work I put into RFC 3023, and the very rough consensus we > managed to achieve there, I think XML is demonstrating the limitations > of MIME on a regular basis. that's a pretty bizarre statement. perhaps it's truer to say that XML is trying to misuse MIME on a regular basis? or that expecting the MIME content-type to convey the action that should be performed by a recipient, rather than a description of the content, is a bit of a mis-application of MIME? the fact that XML picked a means of labelling content that is incompatible with MIME's content-type is hardly MIME's fault. Keith
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