On 11/17/97 at 12:05 PM -0600, Alex Hopmann wrote:

>Jacob Palme wrote:
>>One reason against it might be the Base. Another, of course, is
>>if some implementors has strongly committed his implementation
>>to a solution which does not allow this.

We can do it if we need to.

>From our point of view, we already have to cope with Content-Location and
>Content-ID, so this doesn't complicate stuff much. As Jacob points out the
>only additional complexity it introduces for us is in the spec where we need
>to be clear that ONLY the first Content-Location is used for determining the
>base.

Maybe we can just require that if you have multiple Content-Location's, you
MUST specify a Content-Base? (For the record, I still don't see why you
would ever need to determine a base for anything but a "parent" part.
What's the functionality here? Why would you ever need a Content-Base on
one of the referenced parts?)

pr

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