CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_

Reported by David Hofert/Sun Microsystems

Minutes of the MIME Content-Type for SGML Documents Working Group
(MIMESGML)

Note:  Due to unforeseen difficulties, the co-chair that planned to
attend the meeting, Paul Grosso, was unable to attend.  The participants
present then decided to meet in a less formal fashion and discuss the
work underway.



Current Draft Discussion

Objections to the current draft were discussed among the attendees in
Stockholm and on the MBONE as follows:


   o Bill Smith from EBT suggested that the current three drafts require
     further attention as follows:

      -  The MULTI-PART RELATED draft needs work but appears to be
         close.

      -  The MIME-SGML draft has serious flaws and needs significant
         work or to be rewritten.

      -  The MESSAGE EXTERNAL BODY draft may not be required if the
         MIME-SGML draft is rewritten.


   o Further discussion about the MIME-SGML draft revolved around the
     apparent problem that the entire document and all entities must be
     delivered to each recipient.  The limited solution proposed within
     the draft is for a community to share certain entities, but the
     draft does not have a designed solution for others outside of the
     community to obtain these entities.

   o Other attendees within the Stockholm group were in general
     agreement regarding these points.  Note that the attendance was
     small due to the session being held at 7:30 p.m.  and that the
     meeting started late due to the confusion regarding the chair.

   o Don Stinchfield from EBT volunteered to author a new draft for this
     group that was more general but that still followed the direction
     of the charter.  This draft will be posted to the mailing list in
     August.  This draft will include a discussion of problems with the
     current draft and how the new draft solves those problems.  The new
     proposal will revolve around the use of catalogs as has already
     been discussed to some extent on the alias.


Moving Forward

The Area co-Director, John Klensin, was present and agreed that he would
allow the new draft to be circulated to the group.  Don Stinchfield will
forward more information about the draft when it is ready.