[NEW ISSUE] granularirty of MTOM policy assertion

Christopher B Ferris <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:43:39 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.text.xml.distributed
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Title: granularity of MTOM policy assertion 

Description: The assertion requires all messages, regardless of whether 
there is binary content, to be sent as
application/xop+xml. Is this correct behavior? Shouldn't the assertion 
granularity be finer, e.g. such that a client
could send a SOAP request (application/soap+xml) and receive an MTOM 
response (application/xop+xml)
and vice-versa?

Justification: seems odd at best to send xop serialized message even when 
there is no binary content.

Type: technical

Proposal:  TBD

Cheers,

Christopher Ferris
STSM, Software Group Standards Strategy
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