Re: [EAI] And the winner is...... MESSAGE/GLOBAL

[Harald Alvestrand <harald at alvestrand.no>]

Charles Lindsey wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:49:33 +0100, Harald Alvestrand 
> <harald at alvestrand.no> wrote:
>
> > more serioiusly:
> >
> > After considering the available alternatives, and after weighing the 
> > various arguments given in favour of one group of alternatives or the 
> > other, the WG consensus seems to be that it's not unreasonable to go 
> > with the name "MESSAGE/GLOBAL" for the MIME type that represents 
> > messages structured according to draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers.
>
> OK, so now we have a nice new word "Global". Maybe it could now be 
> used elsewhere.
>
> For example, we could choose to name the whole package we are 
> discussing, so that the new type of email will become known as "global 
> email". Use "GLOBAL" as the name of the extension in EHLO. And so on. 
> It is certainly the sort of word that the community would pick up and 
> run with. 
I don't think we want to go there.
1) It's a previously resolved issue.
2) The UTF8SMTP extension is very much bound to use in SMTP
3) Try googling for "global".

                Harald



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