Message-Id: <3.0.32.19971213040942.007ab100@pop.dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 17:49:50 +0000
To: Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se>
From: Graham Klyne <GK@ACM.ORG>
Subject: Re: Message-ID text
Cc: IETF working group on revision of mail standards <drums@cs.utk.edu>,
        Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com>
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At 11:52 11/12/97 +0100, Jacob Palme wrote:
>I am writing this message during the drums meeting in Washington. Here is a
>proposal for new text on the Message-ID based on the discussion during this
>meeting.
>
>An identical Message-ID on two copies of a message means that the sender
>believes that they are essentially identical. [...]

I believe this statement misses the intent of Message-ID, which is to
identify the *transaction*, not the *content*.  (The term "Identical"
doesn't seem to apply to a transaction.)

I would suggest
"... believes that they are phases of the same message transaction".

GK.
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Graham Klyne