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Dave Crocker | 1 Jun 1995 19:20
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Re: comments on latest MIME drafts

In article <199505292044.AA22791 <at> zen.isi.edu>, postel <at> isi.edu wrote:
> I've already applied for IANA.ORG.

    I note that the ietf is accessible only as ietf.cnri.reston.va.us. 
Seems to me that it should be accessible as ietf.org.

    What do other folks think?

d/
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Dave Crocker | 1 Jun 1995 19:28
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Re: Request for recommendation on a Content-Describe: tag

Steve,

    Sorry for the tone of what follows, but the exchange on compriv has
been quite frustrating...

In article <m0sGwWq-0009u7C <at> sdwsys>, sdw <at> lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
wrote:
> We want to define both an HTML tag and a header line, and conceivably a
> MIME type.

    From the discussion on compriv as nearly as I can tell, the desire for
anything other than a new Content-* field is based on a misunderstanding of
some critical technical underpinnings of the Web.  You do NOT want an HTML
tag and you do NOT want a new MIME type.  

    You want one, simple mechanism.  It won't really help the cause that is
being pursued -- control of access to pornography by minors -- but it will
at least provide a simple place to put a label.

   You want a MIME header, such as "Content-Rating" and then you want to
use something like the cable television content classification (nudity,
violence, adult content, etc.).  As an exercise to the reader, try deciding
whether my note, here, should be labeled as violence, adult content, or
something else.  Never mind trying to assess the movie industry labels, G,
PG, ...

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Jim Conklin | 2 Jun 1995 01:47

Re: comments on latest MIME drafts

At 10:20 AM 6/1/95 -0700, Dave Crocker wrote:
>    I note that the ietf is accessible only as ietf.cnri.reston.va.us.
>Seems to me that it should be accessible as ietf.org.

Agreed!

Jim
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Harald.T.Alvestrand | 5 Jun 1995 00:53
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ietf.org (Re: comments on latest MIME drafts)

Good news - Stev Knowles has registered ietf.org as a domain.
The IETF Web server is already CNAMEd from www.ietf.org.
I guess that other stuff will follow, once we get things in order.

               Harald A
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Ken Pizzini | 15 Jun 1995 02:05

Re: 3xx reply

In article <Pine.SUN.3.91.950614121423.5701D-100000 <at> cybercash.com>,
>I hope that error is really processed like failure but I still don't know...
>
>Anyone out there know?

I don't *know* what they're talking about, but my interpetation
would be: an error is a detecton of an poorly made request which
will continue to be an error no matter how often the request is
tried.  A failure is an inablility of the server to fulfill the
request for reasons which could potentially change later.

As an example, "MAIL TO:<address>" is an error -- there is no "TO:"
subcommand of MAIL, only "FROM:"; on the other hand trying to mail
a 50 KB message to a server with only 8 KB of disk space free on
the mail spool partition would result in a failure, as once the
server's sad situation is cleared up the same request will work
fine.

To put it another way: an error is returned if the server
is unwilling to fulfill the request; a failure is returned
if the server is willing but (currently) unable to fulfill
the request.

		--Ken Pizzini
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Spammer | 19 Jun 1995 04:19
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Free Agent Spam

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Robert Moskowitz | 29 Jun 1995 17:38

Content-Disposition??

I have seen the following in some EMail:

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="AIAG622.WPD"

Yet cannot find any reference to this MIME structure in an RFC.  Can someone
point me to it?

Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
(810) 758-8212
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Robert Moskowitz | 29 Jun 1995 17:42

base64 and Quoted-Printable

Can someone point me to some C code for these transforms?

I need to through together a simple MIME/EDI demo and I definitely need a
transform, don't know yet if I can get by with Quoted-Printable.

BTW, this is for a series of demos.  I am not dump enough to try and write
my own full feature set of apps.  Just got to show what can be done.

Of course if someone has a freely available base-line MIME/EDI
implementation that I can use for a demo, I would gladly use it and give
proper credit!

Robert Moskowitz
Chrysler Corporation
(810) 758-8212
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Erik E. Fair | 29 Jun 1995 21:35
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Re: base64 and Quoted-Printable

metamail, Nathaniel's implementation of MIME, is probably still
available someplace - start with the ftp.bellcore.com (where he used
to work), and then ask archie...

	Erik E. Fair	apple!fair	fair <at> apple.com
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Harald.T.Alvestrand | 30 Jun 1995 09:51
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Re: Content-Disposition??

Joy - it's been published!

>From the RFC index:

1806  E    R. Troost, S. Dorner, "Communicating Presentation Information in  
           Internet Messages:  The Content-Disposition Header", 06/07/1995.  
           (Pages=8) (Format=.txt) 

          Harald A
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