Gonzalo,

Obviously we allow a "forward" reference from the sip message itself (which from a mime perspective are just a bunch of mime headers.)

I think that establishes a precedent that needs to be continued. An example of why can be seen in sipfrag:

If we had a valid sip response that had a reference into one of its body parts, then if that was turned into a sipfrag and stuffed into the body of a NOTIFY, then it must still be valid.

I just did a quick scan of the new draft, so the following is a tentative comment, until I can read it more carefully:

I think the draft is now saying that the decision about whether to process a body part according to a reference to it, or process independently, is decided based on whether a reference is found. We had this discussion before, and I think we agreed that wouldn't work well, and that instead we would have a special C-D type for body parts that are disposed of based on a reference.

I don't think the introduction of issues related to multipart/related changes this. The obvious cases are when there is a single multipart/mixed containing some body parts. Some of those may be referenced from CID URIs in sip headers, and others (e.g. SDP) may stand on their own. It is entirely possible that a body part might be referenced from some extension header that the recipient doesn't understand. In that case it may erroneously decide to process the body part on its own, when it should instead have ignored it because the header isn't being processed.

        Thanks,
        Paul

Gonzalo Camarillo wrote:
Folks,

I have just submitted a new revision of the body handling draft. Until it appears on the archives, you can fetch it from:

http://users.piuha.net/gonzalo/temp/draft-ietf-sip-body-handling-00.txt

Per our discussions in Chicago, the draft now states that only body parts within the same 'multipart/related' can reference each other using cid URIs.

If this is too restrictive, we could also allow using forward references in any context (with no 'multipart/related' at all).

Comments?

Thanks,

Gonzalo



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