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Re: List postings as attachments



Hall Stevenson wrote:

> > The PGP-MIME RFCs are "Proposed Standards".  I suppose
> > MS could claim they don't want to implement the standard
> > until it's finalized, but I would find that disingenuous in
> the
> > extreme.
> 
> So, this is a non-finalized standard ?? People shout out "but
> it's a standard and MS chooses to ignore it" when it doesn't
> appear to be (yet).

Read RFC2026 for a full explanation of the term "Proposed Standard" and
its relationship to "Draft Standard" and "Standard". By the time
something is a "Proposed Standard", it is fairly mature and ready to be
widely implemented.

Craig

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