RE: Notification authentication in CPIM

On 20 May 2002 19:47, John D. Ramsdell wrote:
[snip]
> which I gather will be changed into something like:
> 
>   2.3. Format of Instant Messages
>      
>      An INSTANT MESSAGE is an object of a MIME Type "message/CPIM", as
>      defined in [CPIM-MSGFMT].  The 'From' header indicates the sender
>      of the message.  The final section of the "message/CPIM" object
>      is the MIME-encapsulated message content--the body of the instant
>      message.
> 
> On the topic of presence service, CPIM-02 says:
> 
[snip]
> which could be changed into something like:
> 
>      A presence message is an object of MIME Type "message/CPIM", as
>      defined in [CPIM-MSGFMT].  The 'From' header indicates the sender
>      of the presence information.  The final section of the
>      "message/CPIM" object is the MIME-encapsulated message content.
>      For presence information, the MIME type of the content must be
>      "application/cpim-pidf+xml".  This format is fully defined in
>      [CPIM-PIDF].
> 
> This would work for me, and I'm sure it will make Adrian happier.

:o) Sorry to be such a pain.

This sounds pretty good to me. However, I think we decided that there
would be specific MIME types for the different MSGFMT 'profiles' so
presumably there will be a version of "message/CPIM" for instant
messages and a different one for presence. Did I understand this
correctly?

Adrian.




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