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CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
Reported by David Hofert/Sun Microsystems
Minutes of the MIME Content-Type for SGML Documents Working Group
(MIMESGML)
Note: Due to unforeseen difficulties, the co-chair that planned to
attend the meeting, Paul Grosso, was unable to attend. The participants
present then decided to meet in a less formal fashion and discuss the
work underway.
Current Draft Discussion
Objections to the current draft were discussed among the attendees in
Stockholm and on the MBONE as follows:
o Bill Smith from EBT suggested that the current three drafts require
further attention as follows:
- The MULTI-PART RELATED draft needs work but appears to be
close.
- The MIME-SGML draft has serious flaws and needs significant
work or to be rewritten.
- The MESSAGE EXTERNAL BODY draft may not be required if the
MIME-SGML draft is rewritten.
o Further discussion about the MIME-SGML draft revolved around the
apparent problem that the entire document and all entities must be
delivered to each recipient. The limited solution proposed within
the draft is for a community to share certain entities, but the
draft does not have a designed solution for others outside of the
community to obtain these entities.
o Other attendees within the Stockholm group were in general
agreement regarding these points. Note that the attendance was
small due to the session being held at 7:30 p.m. and that the
meeting started late due to the confusion regarding the chair.
o Don Stinchfield from EBT volunteered to author a new draft for this
group that was more general but that still followed the direction
of the charter. This draft will be posted to the mailing list in
August. This draft will include a discussion of problems with the
current draft and how the new draft solves those problems. The new
proposal will revolve around the use of catalogs as has already
been discussed to some extent on the alias.
Moving Forward
The Area co-Director, John Klensin, was present and agreed that he would
allow the new draft to be circulated to the group. Don Stinchfield will
forward more information about the draft when it is ready.