Re: SMTP or MIME in Strawman OPES Charter

Alex Rousskov wrote:

> you said "Similar to what we did in the first charter, we can make
> SMTP the prime goal which we'll have to provide a solution for, but we
> can first explore the feasibility of a general "email/MIME" profile
> (and maybe include an explicit charter item for such exploration)."
> 
> The above direction was supported by Abbie and myself, without
> objections. Can we go down that path and include an exploratory
> charter item instead of starting with SMTP? It may also simplify
> solving the agent-dependency problem for SMTP. We can be more vague
> about SMTP if we have to do MIME first!
> 
> I apologize for not recalling that two-week old e-mail thread earlier.

I actually had this in mind... The phrasing we've so far in the 
strawman charter does *not* preclude us from doing this. I would 
expect us to explore these options first, just as we did with OCP 
(without having it mentioned explicitly in the previous charter). Not 
explicitcly broadening the scope might make it more likely to get the 
charter accpeted.

-Markus