Re: [Sip] Support for Multipart/MIME

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@cisco.com> Thu, 10 May 2007 17:22 UTC

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Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:22:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Sip] Support for Multipart/MIME
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I think it will be easier to make progress on multipart/mixed than 
multipart/alternative. It appears that making progress on alternative 
will be difficult without some use cases to help in defining what it 
means to "support" one of the alternatives.

	Paul

Dan Wing wrote:
>>> I have become convinced, through my efforts with RTPSEC, that 
>>> multipart/alternative is harmful if it contains multiple SDP parts.
>> Again, I am not in a position to disagree with you ,but is that
>> harmfulness documented somewhere?
> 
> Nope.  If we're going to move multipart/* forward in SIP, though,
> I'll be happy to write that section.
> 
> -d
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