Re: The issue of mime parsing

Rickard Armiento (Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 11:43:50AM +0100):
> 
> Rickard:
> >> is it perhaps nessecary to abandon MIME for im2000?
> 
> clemens:
> > i think this is a good idea.  im2000 servers could have
> > capabilities:  if some server can MIME store HTML and PNG files,
> > say, but no big audio streams, it could tell the sender that
> > either parts of his message will be advertised or none.
> [...]
> > maybe MIME should be enhanced a bit for this to work?
> 
> I'm not sure I fully understand what you mean by "MIME store" a file.
> It sounds to me as you are thinking of storing the parts as separate
> files, but in some kind of MIME-specified ASCII-encoding? Since a
> new im2000 protocol replacing SMTP can be designed to allow full
> binary transfer of files, I do not understand why any data during the
> send-delivery cycle needs to be ASCII-encoded?

IM2000 should use 8bit MIME encoding and support mainly/only MIME
multipart.

-- 
Stefan Karrmann