Subj : Is binkp/d's security model kaputt?
To   : tenser
From : Oli
Date : Thu Sep 23 2021 04:15 pm

tenser wrote (2021-09-24):

 t> On 23 Sep 2021 at 08:04a, deon pondered and said...

 de>> No timeout needed yet.

 t> My bad; that came across much snootier than I intended.

 >>> The thing to do here is define a small taxonomy of X- tokens
 >>> describing various BBS-centric formats and follow what the header
 >>> says.

 de>> Sure, lets muse over that list here...

 t> Something like, `X-ftn/ftsXXX` for legacy formats
 t> defined by Fidonet standards, and something like,

There are no FTS-xxxx standards for packet formats in use ;). Only the legacy Type 2.0 packets (the one that doesn't support points) defined by FTS-0001.

 t> `X-json/x.y.z` for a JSON serialized version,
 t> where `x.y.z` is a semantically versioned schema
 t> identifier?

Timeout!

This is just wrong. It's application/json or maybe application/x-something or message/x-whatever.

And don't forget:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6648

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