Re: FW: Two new Internet drafts: DIME and WS-Attachments

 Henrik,
 I skimmed through the two drafts and I don't see in there a 
specification of how DIME attachments can be referred to from 
SOAP 1.2 (and presumably SOAP 1.2 Encoding) messages. Is this 
specified anywhere?
 Best regards,

                   Jacek Kopecky

                   Senior Architect, Systinet Corporation
                   http://www.systinet.com/



On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen wrote:

 > 
 > 
 > FYI - just sent to the DIME mailing list [3] (archives [4]) - please
 > send comments there.
 > 
 > Henrik 
 > 
 > [3] mailto:dime@discuss.develop.com
 > [4] http://discuss.develop.com/dime.html
 > 
 > * * * * * 
 > 
 > Two internet drafts have just been submitted to the IETF Internet Draft
 > Editors:
 > 
 > 1) An updated DIME spec with revisions to the DIME record format so it
 > is NOT compatible with the previous version.
 > 
 > 2) An WS-Attachments spec (formerly "SOAP in DIME") updated to match the
 > new DIME spec and with several clarifications.
 > 
 > Until the drafts become available in the IETF Internet Draft archives
 > (may be a backlog because of the upcoming submission deadline), you can
 > find a local copy at [1] and [2].
 > 
 > You will note that the DIME author list includes Russell Butek and Simon
 > Nash, IBM, and the WS-Attachments spec includes Joel Farrell, IBM.
 > 
 > As always, remember that these specifications are Internet Drafts, work
 > in progress, and will change as we move forward. Needless to say they
 > replace the previous drafts.
 > 
 > DIME Record Changes 
 > -------------------
 > 
 > * Addition of a VERSION field at the front allowing us to move to new
 > versions as need be. The field has been designed so that it will not
 > conflict with existing DIME implementations.
 > 
 > * Addition of an OPTIONS field which contains a set of elements, each
 > containing a element type, length, and some data. The element types are
 > centrally registered and guidelines for IANA are provided.
 > 
 > * Changed the width of some of the fields so that more are 8/16/32-bit
 > aligned
 > 
 > Editorial Changes
 > -----------------
 > 
 > * Replaced TNF with TYPE_T (editorial only)
 > 
 > * Updated diagrams to be 32-bit wide (also editorial)
 > 
 > * Added conformance requirement section
 > 
 > * Clarified handling of unknown TYPE_T (formerly TNF) values 
 > 
 > * Improved security considerations sections
 > 
 > Think that's it - comments, questions etc are welcome on the mailing
 > list!
 > 
 > Henrik Frystyk Nielsen
 > mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com
 > 
 > [1]
 > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/draft-nielsen-di
 > me-02.txt
 > [2]
 > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnglobspec/html/draft-nielsen-di
 > me-soap-01.txt
 >

Received on Monday, 15 July 2002 07:58:39 UTC