Re: Summary of the binding discussion (was Re: Protocol Bindings)

Michael,

In the context of a binding to a true transport
protocol such as TCP or UDP, it is often necessary to
"frame" a message such that it can be effectively
transmitted over the wire and safely reconstituted without
loss (or with the ability to identify loss).

HTTP's Content-Length header is an example of a framing
mechanism. DIME provides framing as does BEEP.

There's a really good description/discussion/analysis of
framing and framing mechanisms in Marshall Rose's paper at[1].

Cheers,

Chris

[1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mrose-beep-design-03.txt


Michael Brennan wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the summary. I think this is useful to those of us outside the
> WG. However, I wasn't quite clear on what people meant by the references to
> "framing", and found no references to this in the abstract model or the SOAP
> 1.2 draft spec. Maybe I'm just dense on this, but perhaps a brief blurb
> elaborating what folks mean by "framing" in this context would be helpful to
> outside observers like myself who haven't been immersed in the debate.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Hugo Haas [mailto:hugo@w3.org]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 3:39 PM
> > To: xml-dist-app@w3.org
> > Subject: Summary of the binding discussion (was Re: Protocol Bindings)
> >
> >
> > Since I was losing track of all the arguments/questions seen in this
> > thread, I tried to make a summary of the thread:
> >
> >       http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/1/07/12-transport-binding
> >
> > I am making this publicly available in case somebody would find that
> > useful.
> >
> > Note that this is my interpretation of the emails, so the summaries
> > might not reflect adequately what the author was trying to say.  Feel
> > free to send corrections/additions.
> >
> > I need to add links to the mail archive but I am running short on
> > time, so I will take care of that later.
> >
> > --
> > Hugo Haas - W3C
> > mailto:hugo@w3.org - http://www.w3.org/People/Hugo/ -
> > tel:+1-617-452-2092
> >

Received on Thursday, 12 July 2001 21:30:00 UTC