Re: DIME Use Case?

Patrik,

PF> if you want

And I think that quote from your e-mail is the key point here,
MIME is like a fully featured VCR with all the trimmings it
gives you everything you could want, at the cost of some
simplicity. Despite the availability of these features, some
developers just want to press play, pause and stop.

Should developers require the capabilities of MIME encoding
then they will most definately use it.

DIME represents a simpler alternative which allows the
developer to get the job done without having to factor
in all the MIME bits. If making a something simpler isn't
an argument for a technology then I don't know what is.

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Sent: Sunday, 14 April 2002 15:16
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Subject: Re: [DIME] DIME Use Case?


--On 2002-04-14 07.54 +1000 Mitch Denny <[email protected]> wrote:

> Not necessarily true, there is not a functional link between the two 
> mechanisms. Where MIME finds itself mainly in use in SMTP, NNTP and 
> HTTP communications, DIME is enabled for use in a more direct manner 
> (on the wire).

This is wrong.

MIME is created for the same thing DIME is. Like many other people say
beside Erik and myself, with MIME you can have a profile which need
binary transport (including a content-length tagging if you want) and
voila, you have what I claim is so close to DIME that DIME is not
needed.

Also, regarding basic transport, look at the blocks architecture, it is
exactly what DIME want to be (I claim) but with more features which
solves other problems you still will have with DIME, like multiplexing
over the same connection.

I do not (still) understand what DIME is to be used for, because I have
not seen any arguments what so ever why DIME is needed. And, yes, I have
been in discussions with among others Henrik for many months now, even
before this mailing list was set up.

    Patrik