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 1 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 2