Re: [core] draft-ietf-core-multipart-ct

[Jim Schaad <[e-mail]>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Klaus Hartke <[e-mail]>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 9:50 AM
> To: Jim Schaad <[e-mail]>
> Cc: [e-mail]; [e-mail] WG <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Re: [core] draft-ietf-core-multipart-ct
> 
> For context: [1] [2]
> 
> Jim Schaad wrote:
> > If you say ACCEPT 62, do you accept any combination of nested content
> types?
> 
> Yes. A CoAP request can include at most one Accept option and any response
> must exactly that value as Content-Format or be an error response. CoAP
> doesn't have a mechanism for negotiating the content formats of
> representations embedded in other representations. I stumbled upon the
> same problem with CoRAL.
> 
> > Should something about this be placed into the draft?
> 
> Yes. Proposed text: "CoAP doesn't have a mechanism for negotiating the
> content formats of representations embedded in application/multipart-core
> representations."

Potentially add

"This is generally not an issue as an application is going to return either a fixed set of embedded content types.
Applications which have a need to return different sets of content formats embedded in an application/multipart-core content can negotiate this as a query parameter."

I am not sure that this is the correct wording, but I think providing guidance on a way to handle this problem is reasonable.

Jim
 
> 
> > Also I note that this draft is currently expired and needs to be reposted.
> 
> Yes. Soon™.
> 
> Klaus
> 
> [1]
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ace/L1QPw1zHAj15nsKMe8AFDu6dcm
> I
> [2] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ace/vj5CYF8eRrra5yph2Z9ui3Gkllk