Re: [idn] WG last call summary

[YangWoo Ko <newcat@spsoft.co.kr>]

[I removed iesg, iab, ...]

(Short term) solution on Internet tends to be widespread as legacy
which will hardly obsoleted without fundamental flaws which prevent 
users from using it anymore.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 12:06:04PM +0100, Thor Harald Johansen wrote:
> > Furthermore, the IETF specifications that allow 7-bit software should be
> > fixed as soon as possible. Do you disagree with this?
> 
> > Or do you want these bugs to continue to plague programmers in 10 years?
> > 20 years? 50 years?
> 
> I'm having trouble understanding why we're still using these old
> protocols. Does a standardized transparent (in the "binary" sense of the
> word) mail protocol with built-in support for multi-part messages exist?
> Then why isn't it being implemented all over the place?
> 
> It would make things a whole lot simpler: no UTF-8 or MIME encoding of
> international characters would be nessecary (use Unicode), binary
> attachments would take up significantly less space and Unicode IDNs could
> easily be supported.
> -- 
> Thor Harald Johansen

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