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- Editor's Note: Minutes received 8/14
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- CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_
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- Reported by Steve Thompson/ODS
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- Minutes of the MIME-MHS Interworking Working Group (MIMEMHS)
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- There have been two papers produced since the last meeting:
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- 1. X.400/MIME body equivalence Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Steven
- Thompson
- 2. Mapping between X.400 and RFC-822 Message Bodies Harald Alvestrand
- et al.
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- Several mappings have been defined, and for those without a clear
- X.400(88) equivalent there is a trapdoor/catchall External bodypart
- defined in X.400: EBP-mime-body-part. In the other direction the
- trapdoor in MIME is a new Mime subtype: application/x400-bp
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- The session consisted mostly of a presentation by S. Thompson and H.
- Alvestrand on the material, since the papers were released shortly
- before the IETF. The discussion raised the following issues for
- resolution:
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- o Registration
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- - How to get vendors to register OIDs as well as the equivalent
- MIME subtype with the IANA. Thompson is working with the EMA
- (Electronic Mail Association) and Jon Postel on this issue.
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- - How to manage IANA registration of different versions of BPs
- like WP5.0 and WP5.1.
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- - Should there be automatic OID assignments for MIME Subtypes?
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- o '84 X.400 Support. This subject got the most discussion, by far.
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- - Should the RFC address '84 explicitly or should 88-84
- downgrading be enhanced to handle it.
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- - Simplest case single BP IA5 - Should this be a MIME document or
- just an RFC822 message.
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- - T.61 strings in header vs RFC 1327 needs resolving
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- - Three-party mail issue (mime-X.400(88)-X.400(84)).
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- o The documents need appendices with OIDs defined
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- o Security: viruses will be gatewayed too, not solved in this paper.
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- o Criticality of header extensions must be defined.
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- o Conformance: Is there a different level of support for gateway's
- vs. User Agents for the newly defined X.400 and MIME constructs?
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- Issues will be resolved by E-mail in the next couple of months. Both
- documents will be forwarded as proposed standard RFCs.
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- Attendees
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- Harald Alvestrand Harald.Alvestrand@delab.sintef.no
- Mark Bokhan bokhan@abitok.enet.dec.com
- Luc Boulianne lucb@cs.mcgill.ca
- Urs Eppenberger eppenberger@switch.ch
- Gary Gaudet gaudet@zk3.dec.com
- Tony Genovese genovese@nersc.gov
- Steve Hardcastle-Kille s.kille@isode.com
- Paul Hill pbh@mit.edu
- Christian Huitema christian.huitema@sophia.inria.fr
- Erik Huizer huizer@surfnet.nl
- Todd Kaehler kaehler@zk3.dec.com
- Jim Knowles jknowles@trident.arc.nasa.gov
- Walter Lazear lazear@gateway.mitre.org
- Kent Malave kent@chang.austin.ibm.com
- Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu
- Jim Romaguera romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch
- Marshall Rose mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
- Einar Stefferud stef@nma.com
- Steve Thompson steve@ods.com
- Linda Winkler lwinkler@anl.gov
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