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I'd guess Netscape Communicator was the first of the line to implement s/mime in its email module. It was updated until 2002 and the s/mime RFC is from 1999, but the protocol was in other email packages by then too. There's a more recent copy of the treaty at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/agreements-reached-between-the-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-and-the-european-union#history with different page numbering. Looking at the page it discusses minimum standards for exchanging police-confidentail database entries, I've no idea why the Treaty should carry procedures so specific as to be overtaken by software advances. The Netscape Communicator reference has probably been in the DNA database documentation for twenty years and just got copied across by a team of bureaucrats. I rather liked Netscape Communicator back before Thunderbird took the email side out. It had a very convenient WYSIWYG web page authoring tool. The old packages don't fare well on today's Information Superhighway though. Mosaic just crashes if you show it most sites though it still handles some I write. If you drive Windows for Workgroups 3.11 with the TCP stack installed onto the current web it can't even interpret the traffic any longer. A browser from 2002 is quite unlikely to stand up today. On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 14:55, Paul Sutton via list <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi all > > I saw this posted to Mastodon earlier, which was reposted from Twitter. > > https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/948104/EU-UK_Trade_and_Cooperation_Agreement_24.12.2020.pdf > > Page 921 refers to > > Netscape Communicator - > > > Is anyone likely to still be using Netscape communicator ? Or are they > just referring to the fact that Netscape Communicator supported s/mime? > > Paul > > > > > -- > Paul Sutton, Cert ContSci (Open) > https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/ > > LibrePlanet 2021 - March 2021 - https://libreplanet.org/wiki/Main_Page > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq