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

> You can make negotiation before transfer a REQUIREMENT of some 
> extended SMTP, but SMTP is not the only mail transport protocol 
> around, and you cannot impose such a blanket requirement on _every_ 
> transport protocol, both existing and not yet invented.

correct.

> That is why you need both the negotiation (for those protocols which 
> you are in a position to specify) AND a header (for those you can't).

no, that's why folks should stop trying to enforce a boundary by 
negotiation in the mail transport, because that clearly won't work.  
putting utf-8 information in separate fields probably won't work 
either, for different reasons.