Re: [EAI] POLL: on the "what MIME type" question

[Randall Gellens <randy at qualcomm.com>]

At 8:15 AM +0200 6/22/07, Harald Alvestrand wrote:

>  QUESTION 1: Should there be a new MIME type for UTF8SMTP messages when
>  carried inside messages in an UTF8SMTP environment?
>
>  A: No, message/rfc822 can be used.
>  B: Yes.
>  C: I have another opinion, which is....

B


>  QUESTION 2: Should the same MIME type be used to carry UTF8SMTP messages in
>  a SMTP environment (without the UTF8SMTP extension, and without requiring
>  the 8BITMIME extension)?
>  This implies that it's possible to encode the message.
>
>  A: Yes.
>  B: No, that should not be allowed.
>  C: I have another opinion, which is....

A (we can make an exception to permit encoding for this one subtype)

>  QUESTION 3: Should the new type be a subtype of Message/?
>
>  A: Yes
>  B: No, it should be application/something
>  C: I have another opinion, which is....

A (anything else will be bizarre and unfortunate)

>  QUESTION 4: What should the new MIME type be called?
>
>  A: Message/utf8smtp
>  B: Message/i18n
>  C: Message/international
>  D: Message/global
>  E: Message/rfcxxxx (to be assigned)
>  F: Message/rfc822 (consistent with an "A" answer on question 1)
>  G: Message/utf8
>  H: Message/rfc822u
>  I: Message/mail
>  J: Message/i18n-email
>  K: Message/eai
>  L: Message/smtp
>  M: Message/smtp8
>  N: Message/utf8eai
>  O: Message/utf8-headers
>  P: Message/utf8-email
>  Q: Message/ima
>  R: Message/intl-email
>  S: I have another opinion, which is....

Best of these is "I: Message/mail".

Also acceptable would be versions of "mail" as proposed by John.

I agree that we do not want to pick choices which contain "smtp" or 
"822" or "utf8".

Acceptable would be "D: Message/global" or "C: Message/international" 
although they seem awkward.
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Randall Gellens
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