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[David Shaw]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 03:43:04PM -0500, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> On 11-Dec-2002/16:20 +0000, Graham <graham.todd@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> >On Wednesday 11 Dec 2002 3:20 pm, Anthony E. Greene wrote:
> >
> >> PGP/MIME is the official standard.
> >[snipped]
> >
> >Who says?  Where is this specifically stated?
> 
> The Internet Engineering task Force (IETF). The same standards body that 
> defines SMTP, HTTP, POP3, IMAP, FTP, DHCP, and other internetworking 
> standards.
> 
>   MIME Security with OpenPGP (RFC3156)
>   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3156.txt

PGP/MIME is *an* official standard (well, standards track anyway).
Inline messages are also standards track.  Neither one is any more
official than the other.

David

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