Re: ebXML Proof of Concept Proposal v0.5

[Christopher Ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

It was also decided at the f2f that KISS principle would
apply. The mailbag is on hold for the time being.

Chris

Marc Breissinger wrote:
> 
> I will alter the POC document to reflect this decision from the f2f.  I do
> have a question however: does using "Content-Type: application/vnd.eb+xml"
> to identify the header part prohibit the possibility of embedding a fully
> enveloped eb-xml message as a payload part as it would also have the
> "Content-Type: application/vnd.eb+xml"?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dick Brooks [mailto:dick@8760.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 10:40 PM
> > To: Ebxml; ebXML POC Mailing List; marcb@webmethods.com
> > Subject: RE: ebXML Proof of Concept Proposal v0.5
> >
> >
> >
> > Section "ebXML Technical Details", subsection "Packaging" of the  POC
> > proposal states:
> >
> > "It should be noted that there is a significant problem with the current
> > draft of the packaging standard that effectively prevents the receiving
> > application from recognizing the header part.  The RFC for generating MIME
> > Content-ID mandates only that they be unique strings.  Therefore, the
> > receiving application cannot depend on the presence of the
> > “ebxmlheader” and
> > “ebxmlpayload” tokens preceding the unique id to identify the header vs.
> > payload parts.  In order to resolve this issue in the demonstration
> > environment, participants must include the “Start:” directive shown in the
> > example above."
> >
> > I believe this section of the POC is incorrect.
> >
> > During the July 21-22 face-to-face meeting the ebXML TR&P team decided to
> > eliminate the dependency on Content-ID to identify a ebXML header
> > body part
> > within a ebXML message and created a MIME media type,
> > "application/vnd.eb+xml", to identify ebXML header documents. This MIME
> > media type unambiguously identifies THE body part containing the ebXML
> > header document.  One simply needs to locate the body part identified with
> > the MIME header "Content-type: application/vnd.eb+xml" to locate the ebXML
> > header document.
> >
> > I recommend that POC participants consider using the
> > application/vnd.eb+xml
> > content type to identify the ebXML header document instead of the proposed
> > "Start:" extension header, which is non-standard.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Dick Brooks
> > http://www.8760.com/
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Marc Breissinger [mailto:marcb@webmethods.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 5:25 PM
> > To: ebXML POC Mailing List
> > Subject: ebXML Proof of Concept Proposal v0.5
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Attached is latest rev of the POC proposal.  Please read through
> > and respond
> > with comments.  I will complete the TPA section tomorrow.
> >
> > Sorry for the delay,
> > marc
> >
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> >
> >
> >
> >

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