No I read "...either because they are of an unrecognized type..." to be 
inclusive of body content format.  It does not say "...of an unrecognized 
*Content-Type*".  I get to choose what "type" means for me.
:)

-hadriel


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Kyzivat [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 6:57 PM
>
> Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Dean Willis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2008 3:25 PM
> >>
> >> On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
> >>
> >> I would say it as something like "If the UAS cannot decode the MIME
> >> structure of the body because of formatting errors, it returns a 606.
> >> If the UAS can decode the MIME structure of the body but does not know
> >> what to do with the body parts, either because they are of an
> >> unrecognized type or because there is no application to consume those
> >> body parts, the UAS returns a 415. Otherwise, the UAS delivers the
> >> body part to the application and returns a 200 OK."
> >>
> >> I would leave discussion of application-level rejection of body parts
> >> entirely out of the discussion.
> >
> > Sounds fine with me.
>
> This seems to make it *incorrect* to return any error response in the
> case where the content of the body is incorrect. (For instance if the
> syntax of the body part is inconsistent with the Content-Type declared
> for that part.
>
> While I am ok with *allowing* the UAS to return a 200 in this case, I
> think we go too far to say they UAS MUST NOT return an error for this
> situation.
>
> OTOH, none of the above is normative language, so perhaps the whole
> thing is to be construed as a recommendation or note? I find it very
> difficult after the fact to interpret such language. I would rather that
> it be very explicit about what is normative and what is not intended to
> be.
>
>         Thanks,
>         Paul
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