draft-nerenberg-imap-channel-00.txt

[Steve Gardell <sgardell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I followed the link that Lyndon posted to ietf-imapext mailing list
to this list for discussions of streaming. A quick (maybe too 
quick) scan of the archive didn't turn up any discussion of
this draft. So hopefully I am not treading on a well-beaten path.

I believe that the Channel Transport mechanism described in
the draft is good step towards integrating IMAP message stores
with other next generation elements such as SIP and VoiceXML
that also have a heavy "URI" focus. There appears to be particularly
good synergy with the VoiceXML "document-centric" model.

It seems that the capability identification would ideally include
additional information to specify the actually encoding of
voice.

I agree with some other discussion that I have seen on a couple
of the BINARY threads that issues of streaming and binary
data access are best kept fairly separate.



Steven Gardell
Principal Engineer, Iperia Inc. 
781-993-3544