> From my own point of view, I don't see that creating two documents really
> solve the clarity issue when a single document can be restructured to
> achieve the same effect. Personally, I found the splitting of the MIME
> specification over multiple documents to be a real pain when we first
> started doing some work in this area.
FWIW, I didn't particularly like having to make the split, but the AD at the
time (John Klensin) insisted.
Since then I've received a fair number of comments about it. I'd have to say
that those who liked the split exceeded those who didn't like it by about 4 to
1. So it seems it was the right answer for MIME at least. I certainly wouldn't
want to undo it at this late date...
But what's arguably appropriate for MIME may not be appropriate for this
material. My point was that document structure doesn't have to align with
conformance in any obvious way.
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