Re: [core] New Version of draft-fossati-core-multipart-ct-04.txt

Hi Carsten et al.

I have looked at the multipart draft, and I am happy to see that the
CBOR array is maintained as proposed in est-coaps.
So now we have two drafts that both propose an almost identical new
media type.

The choice will be determined by the delay needed to (pre-)register the
new media type.
Will anyone start doing that for the multipart draft within a
foreseeable delay.
If not, I am happy to pre-register the new media type as specified in
coaps-est to avoid delaying est-coaps.

Looking forward to your reaction,

many thanks for your trouble to create an indenpendent draft.

peter
Carsten Bormann schreef op 2018-06-05 16:55:

> In https://github.com/SanKumar2015/EST-coaps/pull/50, Klaus has proposed to introduce a media type for efficiently combining multiple representations, along with the Content-Format numbers of their media types, into a single representation.
> 
> I believe we have needed such a media type in other places, so I have extracted the content of that PR, and revved draft-fossati-core-multipart-ct (of 2013 vintage) with that.  This would give us a media type multipart/core for general use.  (Thanks are due to Klaus and Thomas for helping me with this little exercise.)
> 
> CoAP-EST is due to be finished very soon, and extracting this media type from the CoAP-EST draft should only be done if we can avoid creating a hazard for CoAP-EST to be delayed by this.
> 
> I don't see such a hazard unless we are having fundamental problems with the approach (but do accept its limited use in the CoAP-EST space).
> So it would be useful to get some quick reactions on whether we can go ahead with this.
> 
> If you don't want to read the draft right now, its technical content is:
> multipart-core = [* multipart-part]
> multipart-part = (type: uint .size 2, part: bytes / null)
> 
> (Where "type" is the content-format identifier.)
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
> 
>> Name:        draft-fossati-core-multipart-ct
>> Revision:    04
>> Title:        Multipart Content-Format for CoAP
>> Document date:    2018-06-05
>> Group:        Individual Submission
>> Pages:        5
>> URL:            https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-fossati-core-multipart-ct-04.txt
>> Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fossati-core-multipart-ct/
>> Htmlized:       https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-fossati-core-multipart-ct-04
>> Htmlized:       https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-fossati-core-multipart-ct
>> Diff:           https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-fossati-core-multipart-ct-04
>> 
>> Abstract:
>> This memo defines multipart/core, an application-independent media-
>> type that can be used to combine (even recursively) several different
>> media types into a single CoAP message-body with minimal framing
>> overhead, along with a CoAP Content-Format identifier.
> 
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