RE: TIFF-FX: technical changes since RFC 2301

Hiroshi Tamura <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Dec 2002 13:08:07 +0900 (JST)
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".

Right. It cannot.
If ifax can do content-negotiation, it can be done in different way.

Regards,
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Hiroshi Tamura, Ricoh Company, LTD.
E-mail: [email protected]