Re: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

MURATA Makoto <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Sep 2003 09:26:15 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.org.w3c.tag,gmane.ietf.xml-mime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Can you explain what in particular you like about the CSS
> mechanism? 

I like the CSS mechanism because it appears at the very beginning.

> Do you expect that all formats would use exactly
> the same character sequence, or only that they would use
> the same structure?

An optimistic answer to the first question is yes, although it may 
be more practical to provide a bit of flexibility (e.g.,   @
as well as #).  The structure and the semantics should be standardized.  
At present, everything is a hopeless mess.

Although I suggested this approach, I still feel uneasy about in-band 
encoding declarations.  I'm trying to generalize them only because 
I believe ad-hoc mechanisms are worse.

Cheers,

Makoto