Re: [NEW ISSUE] granularirty of MTOM policy assertion

Added to Bugzilla:

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=4341

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/chrisferris
phone: +1 508 377 9295

xml-dist-app-request@w3.org wrote on 02/20/2007 08:43:39 AM:

> 
> Title: granularity of MTOM policy assertion 
> 
> Description: The assertion requires all messages, regardless of 
> whether there is binary content, to be sent as 
> application/xop+xml. Is this correct behavior? Shouldn't the 
> assertion granularity be finer, e.g. such that a client 
> could send a SOAP request (application/soap+xml) and receive an MTOM
> response (application/xop+xml) 
> and vice-versa? 
> 
> Justification: seems odd at best to send xop serialized message even
> when there is no binary content. 
> 
> Type: technical 
> 
> Proposal:  TBD 
> 
> Cheers, 
> 
> Christopher Ferris
> STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
> email: chrisfer@us.ibm.com
> blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/chrisferris
> phone: +1 508 377 9295