MIME-Version Header Field

Do BEEP messages require the MIME-Version header field?

RFC 2045 states:

 "Messages composed in accordance with this document MUST include such
  a header field, with the following verbatim text:

     MIME-Version: 1.0"

As BEEP carries MIME messages, one could argue that MIME-Version is a
mandatory header. 

However, the main practical purpose of this header is to tell a RFC
(2)822 user agent that the message they receive is MIME or not - as BEEP
messages are always MIME, it is not needed (unless someone decides to
invent a new version of MIME, which seems unlikely for the near future).


Eamon