Re: OPES charter proposal again.

[Paul Hoffman / IMC]

At 2:45 AM +0100 7/3/01, Lloyd Wood wrote:
>I do like the 'extend [..] the iCAP protocol without being obliged to
>retain any level of compatibility with the current iCAP proposal.'
>Fine, since iCAP's just an individual draft -- but isn't extending
>without being compatible something only Microsoft is generally
>regarded as being capable of doing?

No, we have done it with SSL->TLS, S/MIMEv2->S/MIMEv3, 
PGPorig->OpenPGP, vCalendar->iCalendar, and so on.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--Internet Mail Consortium