Re: DIME Use Case?

David Buksbaum <[email protected]> writes:
> Bottom line is that it was easy to implement, it is fast (relative to
> other wire schemes),
Hmm... Define "fast". Have you done any performance analysis,
comparing it to alternatives?

> One caveat is that we did not implement the chunking protocol yet since
> our payload sizes are somewhat small.
It's almost always easy to hack up some custom protocol for a small
application. When one is designing a standard protocol for general
use, things rapidly become more complicated.

I'm not saying that MIME couldn't be simpler--it could be. However,
what I don't believe is that by the time you've produced a
sufficiently complete version of DIME that it can displace MIME
entirely (even for the limited environment in which you envision
deploying DIME) the it will be sufficiently simpler than MIME to
justify the additional specification effort.

-Ekr

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[Eric Rescorla                                   [email protected]]
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