RE: Compression Draft

> My apologies, I wasn't clear.

> Since we are working with HTTP, we cannot use CTE.  Whatever we use must be
> the same for SMTP and HTTP.

I fail to see any justification for this restriction. Per RFC 2616 section
19.4.5, CTE is indeed not used by HTTP, but all that means is that should you
need to gateway you have to remove the CTE.

You already have to accomodate the base64 and quoted-printable CTEs, so
you have to deal with CTEs regardless of whether or not define a new
compressed one.

> I remember that all the options we discussed for
> binding at the MIME level were not acceptable.   Was I mistaken?

Yes.

> I have been searching for that thread (between Ned Freed and Terry Harding) and
> I can't find it.

I don't recall the conversation.

				Ned