Re: Last Call: IP over MIME to Proposed Standard

[Lloyd Wood <l.wood@eim.surrey.ac.uk>]

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Tim Chown wrote:

> On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 04:48:20PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
> > > We make IP-over-Foo
> > > specifications standards track all the time.  We do not make a point of
> > > forcing them to Experimental.
> >
> > Fine.  Give it the same status as IP over Avian Carriers.  Because it's
> > about as useful.
>
> At least piegons sit (fly) at the link layer, albeit not a very reliable one :)
>
> Sure, we have many IP-over-foo, but invariably foo is link layer.   MIME is not.

Is an MPEG transport stream a link layer?

L.

invariable, you say?

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