Re: [idn] IDN security and ACE leakage

[Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>]

At 09:39 01/07/17 -0400, Keith Moore wrote:

>the time required for MIME deployment has nothing to do with charset issues,
>and everything to do with the large installed base of RFC 822 text-only 
>mailers,
>and the design decision for MIME to provide for carriage of a tree-shaped
>structure of arbitrary, labelled body parts.
>
>even if you think that supporting multiple charsets delayed MIME further,

Well, probably there was some synergy effect, so in part it may have
made things faster. But there are still some mailers that do quite
a good job on multiparts but a bad job on charset issues, so in part
indeed things have been slower.


>there was no universal charset available at the time that MIME was defined.
>would you have delayed the work on MIME until 10646 was finalized
>(several years later)?

I acknowledged that. But now the situation is different.

Regards,   Martin.