From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 95 14:19:13 PDT
To: Bob Snyder <rsnyder@janet.advsys.com>
Subject: Re: S/MIME and the Future of Netscape
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Bob Snyder writes:
> tcmay@sensemedia.net said:
> > With regard to SSL and Netscape not being open to outside developers, 
> > several leading e-mail outfits, including Qualcomm, Netscape, 
> > Frontier, etc., are working on an interoperable secure e-mail 
> > standard called "Secure/MIME," or "S/MIME." 
> 
> Do you have sources for this information?  MOSS is out there at least as a 
> Internet Draft,

In fact, MOSS is now a Proposed Standard.

> and possibly further along, and Steve Dorner of Qualcomm, the
> original author of Eudora, is pretty active in the MIME community
> and I doubt he would support a second MIME type to do the same
> thing...

I would guess the same.

.pm