On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:20 AM, John C Klensin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Would such a statement be improved by a forward pointer from
> Section 8.5?  Anywhere else?

8.6 and 8.8. Or mention it in the beginning of 8?


> This also raises one other issue that apparently was not raised
> in the pre-evaluation process.  RFC 4141 provides specific
> mechanisms and headers for content conversions of various sorts
> by intermediaries who have no specific control relationship to
> either the sender or the receiver.  I believe that the
> conversions contemplated there have always been permitted to
> MSAs, even before we started explicitly documenting that fact in
> RFC 2476.  The new text (from the pre-evaluation document)
> explicitly says that the 4141 extensions MAY be used with MSAs.
> Should the document go a half-step further and indicate that
> content conversions may still be applied by the MSA whether the
> 4141 extensions are specified or not and that an MSA MAY add
> 4141 header fields when it makes such conversions?

This seems logical to me. But I fully admit not being savvy to 4141.

-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA
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