I believe that one consideration of the group is that we might recommend something which has wider application, that would provide non-repudiation of receipt for other types of MIME content. This certainly is an admirable and worthwhile goal. Unfortunately there is no other standard method for accomplishing this now. Tradacoms does not have a defined acknowledgment message.
Lets do it.
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