CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_


Reported by Steve Thompson/Soft-Switch

Minutes of the MIME-MHS Interworking Working Group (MIMEMHS)

Document Review

The Group reviewed the status of the three MIMEMHS documents in
progress.


   o Mapping Between X.400 and RFC-822 Message Bodies - Stable.

   o Equivalences Between 1988 X.400 and RFC-822 Message Bodies -
     Stable.

   o Harpoon:  Rules for downgrading messages from X.400/88 to X.400/84
     when MIME content-types are present in the messages - Issues Still
     Outstanding.


The consensus was that the Mapping and the Equivalence documents could
be forwarded for approval as Proposed Standards, but that HARPOON needs
to be discussed further.

HARPOON Discussion

The remainder of the meeting was spent discussing HARPOON, which covers
MIME-X.400(84) interworking.  Some alternative MIME to X.400(84)
approaches were discussed at length and discarded.  The only HARPOON
issue that had not reached closure was the body part format of MIME
messages in an X.400 message.  This issue had been discussed on the
list, but no consensus was reached.  There were good arguments for each
solution, but everybody agreed that one solution was better than
supporting both.  Consensus was reached on going with the IA5 body part
rather than a Binary one.  Harald Alvestrand will update the HARPOON
document and reissue a final draft within the next week or so.

The Group decided to forward all three documents for approval as
Proposed Standards, once the HARPOON editing is complete.

Attendees

Gabe Beged-Dov           gabe@cv.hp.com
Nathaniel Borenstein     nsb@bellcore.com
Kevin Carosso            kvc@innosoft.com
George Chang             gkc@ctt.bellcore.com
William Chung            whchung@watson.ibm.com
Kishan Dudkikar          kishan@icm1.icp.net
Urs Eppenberger          eppenberger@switch.ch

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Francois Fluckiger       fluckiger@vxcern.cern.ch
Ned Freed                ned@innosoft.com
Jeroen Houttuin          houttuin@rare.nl
Erik Huizer              huizer@surfnet.nl
Barbara Jennings         bjjenni@sandia.gov
Kevin Jordan             Kevin.E.Jordan@cdc.com
Marko Kaittola           Marko.Kaittola@funet.fi
Mary La Roche            maryl@cos.com
Ignacio Martinez         martinez@rediris.es
Francois Robitaille      francois.robitaille@crim.ca
Jim Romaguera            romaguera@cosine-mhs.switch.ch
Marshall Rose            mrose@dbc.mtview.ca.us
Gregory Sheehan          gregory.c.sheehan@att.com
Einar Stefferud          stef@nma.com
Catherine Summers        cfs@cos.com
Steven Thompson          sjt@gateway.ssw.com
Louisa Thomson           louisa@whitney.hac.com
Panos-Gavriil Tsigaridas Tsigaridas@fokus.berlin.gmd.dbp.de
Gregory Vaudreuil        gvaudre@cnri.reston.va.us



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