I would think that MIME support would be extremely important to some of the overall goals of the remailer net, i.e. popularity and off-shore remailers. Now, I'm not that familiar with MIME, but I believe it has much better support (that is, it has some) for the extended character sets that are needed for many languages. The remailers as the stand today, are great as long as you don't want to send a message in Chinese, Russian, etc. As far as RFCs, I think documenting the current remailer system then the new version is a good idea. The current system can be done now, done faster, and provide a better understanding for others who can then add to the discussion for the next version. -- America - a country so rich and so strong we can reward the lazy and punish the productive and still survive (so far) Don Melvin storm@ssnet.com finger for PGP key.