Re: [Asrg] New take on emerging idea. (yet another C-R system?)

[J C Lawrence <claw@kanga.nu>]

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 20:09:51 -0400 
Kee Hinckley <nazgul@somewhere.com> wrote:
> At 2:28 PM -0700 4/10/03, J C Lawrence wrote:

>> Address shunting/rewriting is a good point, but one I don't see as
>> handleable without direct MUA support.

> Agreed.  However a standard for what the message would look like that
> notifies someone of an address change would be a useful item in
> general.  

Yeah, I just spent most of a 100 mile drive (San Jose -> Richmond -> San
Jose) thinking about that one.  Summary: There are lots of ways,
including several that are friendly to non-supporting MUAs and even
foreign language speakers (via abuse of MIME).

What would be more interesting (to me), and I think more useful in
general is a generically portable and useful way of encoding command
sets in email ala XML/RPC which are both human readable and
machine-friendly.  If such already exists we should plug into it.  I
haven't yet done a literature survey to see if such already exists --
hopefully someone here knows and can save me some time.

> What I'm not sure of is whether it's possible to do it securely.  And
> if you don't, the ramifications are kind of nasty.

Yeah, that's a worrisome end.  There's some token rights negotiation
there that's just not pretty.

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J C Lawrence                
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