On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Christopher Ferris wrote: I wasn't suggesting that there were any changes to the existing MIME headers, what I was commenting on was the need (for digest calculation) to specify canonicalization of MIME headers which is clearly (IMO) outside our scope, responsibility and ownership. As I said in my previous note, this group has special considerations for canonicalizations that would not be addressed by the IETF if it were to do this. Thus, I think it is reasonable and correct for this group to specify what it needs for its purposes. In fact, Suresh and I are working on this now. Jim