Re: draft-ietf-impp-cpim-msgfmt syntax

Folks,


Thursday, November 7, 2002, 11:37:14 AM, you wrote:

Jon> That much said, now that DateTime is done,

date/time format has been problematic for a few decades.  i don't know
whether the cpim format is an improvement over the work that RFC 2822 did.
For that matter, there have been one or two other efforts.  At any rate, it
certainly is a topic worthy of independent consideration.

Jon> It might cost us a little time now to change this, but I think we will save
Jon> time in the long run if we reuse an existing format - a whole new format
Jon> would surely go under significant scrutiny in the IESG, etc.

If the group insists on RFC2822 compatibility, then the question is one of
semantic profiling.  (And it occurs to me that one could have lots of fun
with that at an airport.)

If the group prefers an XML syntax, we should review

    <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klyne-message-rfc822-xml-03.txt>


d/
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