Re: [sip-clf] Strawman proposal to handle bodies

["Elwell, John" <[e-mail]>]

Vijay,

I don't object strongly - just wanted to solicit other opinions.

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vijay K. Gurbani [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: 20 January 2011 14:33
> To: Elwell, John
> Cc: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [sip-clf] Strawman proposal to handle bodies
> 
> On 01/20/2011 03:55 AM, Elwell, John wrote:
> > Vijay,
> >
> > Don't we need 4 different tags for the 4 content types we plan to
> > support? Otherwise you have to decode part of the value to see how
> > the rest of the value is encoded, IIUC.
> 
> John: Thanks for your time; indeed, that was my intent.
> 
> Having four different content types is one way to go, but
> since what is contained in this field is a body, then it also
> seems appropriate to have a tag for a body and insert the
> corresponding MIME type in the record to describe the body.
> 
> In this manner, everything is self-described using the one
> body tag as compared to enumerating a separate tag for each
> body type.
> 
> Will this approach work for you?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> - vijay
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