Re: Draft-gregorio-atompub-multipart on the standards track?

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Jun 15, 2008, at 2:33 PM, Brian Smith wrote:

> After reviewing this more carefully, I can see that this is almost  
> exactly a
> re-invention of XML-binary Optimized Packaging [1]

I entirely disagree. XOP/MTOM is a means of mapping between a MIME  
package, including any old binary crap, and an XML infoset.  Its  
raison-d'etre is so that people who want to see the world through an  
XML lens can pretend that a standalone JPEG is actually the content of  
some imaginary XML element.  Atompub, on the other hand, lets a JPEG  
be a JPEG and an Atom entry be an Atom entry.  All that the multipart  
draft does is propose that these things can be sent together in one  
package rather than separately.  There is no mapping to any XML  
infoset.  Thus, there is no meaningful relationship to XOP/MTOM.

 -Tim