RE: Optimisations other than Base64

MTOM provides for a specific kind of optimization, namely serializing
particular things as raw binary in separate parts of a multipart/related
package. I think the notion of a binary XML is in a completely different
space.

Gudge

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> [mailto:xml-dist-app-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Eugene Kuznetsov
> Sent: 29 July 2003 23:04
> To: 'Mark Nottingham'; 'Xml-Dist-App@W3. Org'
> Subject: RE: Optimisations other than Base64
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> > 1. Should MTOM accommodate encodings/optimizations other 
> than base64?
> >     a. If so, should the list be open-ended (i.e., extensible)?
> 
> I think so. base64, while popular, is decidedly "old-tech". 
> Maybe there will be some new outcome from the binary XML 
> discussions, maybe other technologies can be applied in other 
> "transfer syntax" configurations, to use an ASN.1 term. The 
> important thing is to get everyone agreeing on how such 
> configurations are designated and to define a 
> lowest-common-denominator. Special applications (high 
> performance, low-bandwidth, etc.) are likely to have different needs. 
> 
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