- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 23:00:50 -0500
- To: Anish Karmarkar <Anish.Karmarkar@oracle.com>
- Cc: Marc Hadley <Marc.Hadley@Sun.COM>, Martin Gudgin <mgudgin@microsoft.com>, "Xml-Dist-App@W3. Org" <xml-dist-app@w3.org>
Anish Karamarkar writes: >> We have already accepted use case UC6 [2] I'm not being fascetious here, but MTOM is a layered system, and we need to be clear on the layers to which our use cases apply. At the highest level, we clearly meet this use case already. I suspect that those who proposed it also want it to apply to the particular serialization we are recommending, but we should probably say so. FWIW: for exactly the reasons Gudge has raised, I have some concerns about our having approved UC-6. The concerns are not strong enough for me personally to request that we reopen the question if we have a "status quo" decision, but I am sympathetic to the downsides of having to do reference counting at intermediaries. Depending on how implementations work, this could require intermediaries to do a much more careful parse than would otherwise be necessary. Without this, I could go into a well-formedness check on headers not targeted at me, at least in many cases. With this, I will almost surely have to check them for xbinc:includes so I can count 'em up. Seems like complexity to me. If there is a compelling need for the use case, fair enough. If it's on the 20 side of 80/20, I have some doubts. Thank you! Noah [2] http://www.w3.org/2000/xp/Group/3/10/wd/soap-os-ucr.html -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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