Re: Can we back up a bit and ask some basic questions?An alternate model

At 2:05 AM -0500 2/24/03, Edmon Chung wrote:
>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-chung-imax-00.txt

This doesn't address any of the issues that I raised with John's 
proposal of IMAA-UTF8, and in fact brings in many more horrible 
problems like bad charset mappings and forcing a client fallback.

What is the actual deployment advantage of a ESMTP extension over 
just plain IMAA-ACE? If the MUA or the MTA that is about to write to 
the message store needs to be able to act differently based on 
different input, which is true in all the proposals so far, wouldn't 
a solution that has zero effect on SMTP be better than one that 
requires a complete infrastructure upgrade (IMAA-UTF8) or one that 
has an optional infrastructure upgrade and requires an IMAA-ACE 
"fallback"?

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium