Re: DIME Use Case?

--On 2002-04-14 14.03 -0700 Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> DIME is not a protocol. It is a framing/packaging format.
>
> Right - in this case SOAP is the protocol providing all the protocol
> semantics - DIME is just the wrapper of choice.

SOAP is not a protocol either. A protocol is a description on how to move
data from A to B over (in the case of Internet) IP. Neither SOAP nor DIME
specify how to carry the data from A to B.

Yes, there is some handwaving about a "binding" to HTTP and SMTP in some
SOAP documents, and some more handwaving about DIME in TCP.

But, no protocol spec as far as I have seen.

If you have a thorough description, please point to one.

   paf