Re: INFO Framework - one pakage per INFO

Dean Willis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sip
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:47 AM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:

>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Christer Holmberg [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:16 AM
>>
>> We do allow multipart for legacy INFO (well, at least we don't  
>> disallow
>> it).
>>
>> Do we need to say anything about the number of packages?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question.  We should say: 1 INFO, 1  
> package.  You make it sound like a package is a body-part.  It's  
> not.  A package just defines a specific message use context, and  
> rules thereof.  You can define a info-package that specifies no  
> bodies, for example.
>
> Adding support for multiple packages, is like asking for a message  
> to have multiple usage contexts and rules.  It makes my head hurt. :)
>

I concur strongly with this position.

I started thinking about the which-application-do-I-give-this-message- 
to API, and realized that for some API models, multiple packages per  
INFO would be a major furball. Let's just not go there.

--
Dean
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