Re: UUCP, etc., and SMTP/822/MIME mail (was: Re: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-utf8headers-00.txt)

On Thu, 01 Jan 2004 19:05:06 -0500, John C Klensin wrote:
>  Thanks for clarifying the dates in my deliberately-vague "decade".
>
>  We are, I think, in complete agreement: we couldn't have rationally done
>  anything else than what we did, and the text you cite explains exactly why
>  we made that decision.

I believe the situation was stronger than "we couldn't have rationally done 
anything else."  My recollection is that MIME was delayed roughly a year due 
to the claims that Unicode was the One True solution, in spite of it not yet 
having attained stability or installed base.  Indeed, we could not delay MIME 
longer.

d/
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