Re: Feedback on the MSS draft - content questions

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

Steve,

Again, thanks for taking the time to provide us with valuable
feedback. My thoughts below avec <cbf/>.

Chris

Steve Hole wrote:
> 
> 1.  Under what circumstances would an empty payload container be
>     provided?   What value would a "naked" header section have?  A good
>     example for this would help a lot.
<cbf>
An acknowledgment message would have no payload since the semantics
are embodied in the Header document itself (MessageType="Acknowledgment"
and RefToMessageId element value).
</cbf>
> 
> 2.  Can the payload part be a multipart/mixed or must it be one of the
>     atomic parts?   I can certainly imagine scenarious where the payload
>     refers to other parts, and I see implications of this in the
>     document, but it seems to me that it should be very explicit.   In
>     fact, I would give an example of both a single (atomic) part and one
>     or more structured parts -- say an multipart/mixed and a
>     message/rfc822.
<cbf>
As in my previous response, the payload is a single MIME object which
MAY be of any valid MIME type including multipart/*.
</cbf>
> 
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