Re: MIME-Version Header Field

Jered Floyd <[email protected]> 23 Sep 2002 17:18:10 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.beep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Solution 3) That the MIME-Version header be added without changing any
> of the implementations - the only way to do this is that in some future
> revision, section 2.2. of RFC 3080 be updated with one line about the
> MIME-Header:
> "2.2 Messages and Frames
>    A message is structured according to the rules of MIME.  Accordingly,
>    each message may begin with "entity-headers" (c.f., MIME's Section 3
>    [1]).  If none, or only some, of the "entity-headers" are present:
>    o  the default "Content-Type" is "application/octet-stream"; and,
>    o  the default "Content-Transfer-Encoding" is "binary".   
>    o  the default "MIME-Version" is "1.0"."  <<<---------------- new
> line
> 
> I would favour option 3. Is that acceptable to others?

This seems like a fine solution.

--Jered