RE: [Asrg] Should email have semantics?

["Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <pbaker@verisign.com>]

Summary - mixing control and data in the same channel causes problems

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Delany [mailto:tcrcn-6ugsc@qmda.emu.st]
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:39 AM
> To: asrg@ietf.org
> Subject: [Asrg] Should email have semantics?
> 
> 
> We pretty much use email as a form of universal transport. While there
> are mechanisms to express the type of content (such as MIME) no
> formal mechanisms exist to express actions or consent that are
> embedded in the email exchanges. As a consequence, we have an
> unimaginable menagerie of ad hoc expressions of actions and consent.
> 
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