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Jacob Palme | 14 Nov 1994 15:08
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ISO/IEC letter to IETF on cooperation

The meeting with ISO/IEC JTC 1/WG 4 in Seoul last week decided to
send the following letter to IETF:

Title: Interworking between X.400/MHS and Internet e-mail

To: Internet Engineering Task Force

From: ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18/WG 4

Date: 8 Nov 1994

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 18/WG 4 is the ISO/IEC group which is responsible
for ISO/IEC work on maintenance and development of the X.400/MHS
messaging standards. We have proposed to ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC18 that
we get a new work item with the title ³Interworking between
X.400/MHS and Internet e-mail². According to ISO/IEC practice,
technical work on a new work item can be started before the new
work item has been formally approved. International
Telecommunications Union (ITU), Study Group 7, questions 12 and 14
has expressed interest on collaborating with ISO/IEC on this
issue.

We thus with this letter invite the Internet Society to cooperate
with us on technical work on the new work item. The goal should be
to exchange information about current work in the area of
interworking between X.400/MHS and Internet e-mail, and to study
certain topics, which may require more work. Such topics might
include:

a)	Addressing.
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Jamey Maze | 16 Nov 1994 18:48
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Re: HTML in MIME mail

Maybe smart mailers could send HTML in a multipart/alternative (?) structure with text/plain and
text/html parts. The first would be formatted best possible way for text-only display. I'm thinking of
something like what folks are doing with text/enriched.
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Arnt Gulbrandsen | 17 Nov 1994 05:54
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Re: SWEDISH CHARACTERS IN EMAIL: THE SUNET INITIATIVE

In article <9411161838.AA12549 <at> necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp> you write:
>> I guess my outside-the-little-mountainous-island
>> MUA is supposed to be able to read minds and guess that it's JIS.
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>You don't have to, if what you receive is ASCII or JIS only.
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>Supporting a single localization is easy.

And, perhaps, short-sighted.

I installed a a small sendmail replacement that does some ISO-8859-1
magic.  It's a fair default: If a message originating on a unix host
contains untagged 8-bit characters, in Norway it's almost certain to
be 8859-1.

I have discovered, however, that some people in the language
departments here want to send mail out of the country, to Slovakia
and places like that.  And samiskhs.no is in Norway but, unless my
memory fails me, uses 8859-2.  So while 8859-1 is by far the most
common, it's not universal.

>MIME charset mechanism is good to identify multiple
>localizations. But, if one decides to use 8bit Latin-1 only, a
>single localization, he does not need charset specification.

If one decides that, one is even more shortsighted as I am: I did at
least allow people to put in their own MIME headers.

--Arnt
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