Last Call for SOAP Message Optimization related specs

The XML Protocol Working Group is pleased to announce that it has entered
the Last Call review phase [1] for several specifications. The following
documents are specifically targetted for this review:
SOAP Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism (aka "MTOM"),
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-soap12-mtom-20040608/
XML-binary Optimized Packaging (aka "XOP"),
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xop10-20040608/
SOAP Resource Representation Header,
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-soap12-rep-20040608/

Comments are welcome until the Last Call review period ends on 29 June
2004. Please send comments to [email protected].

The use cases and requirements that motivate the above specifications are
documented in:
SOAP Optimized Serialization Use Cases and Requirements,
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-soap12-os-ucr-20040608/

And a first Working Draft of the following referenced specification has
been jointly published by the XML Protocol and Web Services Description
Working Groups:
Assigning Media Types to Binary Data in XML,
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-xml-media-types-20040608

In addition, the XML Protocol Working Group has published the following
informational documents:
XOP Inclusion Mechanism - Frequently Asked Questions,
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-xopinc-FAQ-20040608/
SOAP 1.2 Attachment Feature,
http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-soap12-af-20040608/

[1] http://www.w3.org/2004/02/Process-20040205/tr.html#last-call

David Fallside
Chair XMLP WG