Re: The issue of mime parsing

clemens fischer (Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:09:12PM +0100):
> Stefan Karrmann <[email protected]>:
> > IM2000 should use 8bit MIME encoding and support mainly/only MIME
> > multipart.
> 
> you surely don't want to exclude CJK contents, you mean more or less
> transparent, with encodings agreed upon by the endpoints, right?

Right. Since IM2000 should not be an universal storage system, it
should not look into the message body. If you really want to provide
alternatives of the real-body you can put the links into the message
body and every receiver can download what he prefers.

The data of an ISP-IM2000 for a message should be similar to

list of
   addressee                     (mandatory)
   ISP of addressee              (mandatory)
   public key of addressee       (optional)  -\
   public key of addressee's ISP (optional)  --+-- one of both is recommended
   list of                       (optional)
      cash descriptor               (mandatory, e.g. hashcash, etc.)
      cash value                    (optional, maybe by challenge response)

sender                        (mandatory on the sender's ISP to report success)
char notice [NOTICELEN]       (global fixed length, e.g. NOTICELEN=256)
body_size                     (mandatory, unlimited)
body                          (mandatory)
deadline                   (mandatory, tai-label, cf. <http://cr.yp.to/proto/utctai.html>)

-- 
Stefan Karrmann