RE: TIFF-FX: technical changes since RFC 2301

"Dan Wing" <[email protected]> Mon, 23 Dec 2002 14:43:02 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.fax
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> hence this argues in favor of having tiff-fx be a superset of tiff.
> 
> that makes sense to me, except how can an agent not know which profile of
> TIFF it is using, at the start of the MIME body-part? Doesn't it need to
> provide the profile information right at the beginning of the body-part
> content?

Imagine the agent is a standard MUA (Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, etc.), and 
it's told to attach "fax.tif".

-d

> ned> Perhaps something along the lines of tiff-fx SHOULD NOT be 
> used to label
> ned> profiles S and F except when the specific profile isn't 
> available to the
> ned> labelling agent.
> 
> right.
> 
> 
> d/
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