[Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-hall-mime-app-mbox-00.txt]

[ned.freed at mrochek.com]

> At 5:51 PM -0500 5/3/04, Eric A. Hall wrote:
> >I'm thinking about the problem with defaults here. If it's under text/*
> >then default is text/plain which is eol conversion, but if it's under
> >application/* then the default is application/octet-stream which is
> >binary. If we *want* eol conversion, then it pretty much has to be under
> >the text/* tree.

> You *could* put it under application and specify explicitly that it
> takes a charset parameter and eol conversion.

Actually, you _don't_ want a charset parameter since the content
can involve multiple charsets.

> How many people will
> pay attention is anyone's guess.  In practice, I expect you're right
> that text/* is eol conversion and application/* is not.

Yep.

> (I used to argue for an explicit CT parameter specifying EOL
> conversion, but no sense reopening decade-dead debates...)

I have a file that in effect specifies this on a per-content-type basis.

				Ned