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- Dan,
-
- Thanks for that proposal. I must admit to not having read the MIME RFC,
- being mostly concerned with text rather than multimedia, so I wasnt
- aware of the hypertext implications of it.
-
- My question is on a fairly minor point of your document, you mention that
- a MIME document typically consists of a content and then the pointers,
- with the hypertext links being references to the pointers. In Wais, it
- is quite possible to return part of a document (by byte position), and
- if the pointers are part of the document itself then they may not be
- returned at the time the user chooses to try and follow a link?
-
- My concerns are around doing these things for users on low-speed (2400 baud)
- modems. For them, protocols need to be easy to handle at slow speed, and
- need to be meaningfull BEFORE the whole document has been received. As the
- Internet extends out to more and more users beyond the high-speed links
- currently assumed the need for protocol designers to consider those users
- becomes more important.
-
- - Mitra
-