Re: Chat: questions on 'accept-wrapped-types'

On Sep 12, 2012, at 8:50 AM, "Miguel A. Garcia" <[email protected]> wrote:

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>>>> Can we live with some implementor guidance that they need to think about this, and leave a formal solution as future work if anyone wants to do it?
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>>>> Thanks!
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>>>> Ben.
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> At this point in time, I believe we don't really understand all the use cases and problems that we will get when we introduce the Content-Disposition handling parameter. Let me give you one example of added complexity:
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> Alice sends a message to the chat room. The MSRP switch distribute to Bob and Charlie, because both indicated an accept-wrapped-types of "*". Bob accepts the content, but not Charlie. Charlie "MUST take the appropriate failure action " [RFC3459], but which one is it? And then, when the MSRP switch receives such 'failure action', what should it do towards the sender? And should it wait to aggregate 'failure actions' from several potential receivers?
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> So, let's be pragmatical. We don't have time nor requirements to have this sophisticated feature at this late point in time. I will try to think of something simple (e.g., discard on error). If someone is interested, he or she should collect requirements and write an extension.
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> Is this reasonable? If so, I will come up with text for review?

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