DIME obsolete

[Alasdair Allan]

Guy Rixon wrote:
> suggests that DIME has been made obsolete by SOAP MTOM. Interesting.

So many protocols, so little time...

Seriously though, has anyone ever heard of this one? I've never even heard
of it! I note with interest that it was initally proposed by "IBM, BEA,
others" rather than "IBM, BEA and Microsoft" while DIME itself is a purely
Microsoft standard.

Stick with MIME, while it doesn't have the feature set of the other two, 
however at least it's actually a real, honest to God, standard.

Al.
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Dr. A. Allan, School of Physics, University of Exeter