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 NEWSMicrosoft tosses a DIME for Web services By Cathleen Moore November 27, 2001 2:19 pm PT WORKING TO HAMMER out the technical details of Web service interactions, Microsoft this month quietly submitted to the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) a message format protocol designed to simplify the transmission of video, graphics, and sound files in Web services.
DIME addresses the difficulties involved in embedding binary data, such as video, graphics, and sound, into XML documents and in putting an XML document in another XML document, according to Philip DesAutels, product manager for XML Web services at Microsoft. The Redmond, Wash.-based company submitted DIME as an IETF Internet Draft on Nov. 14. Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft earlier this year submitted for standards consideration development work that described how to use MIME and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) to combine binary data and multiple messages together. From this development work in using SOAP with attachments, Microsoft saw a need for a simpler format for combining multiple chunks of information into one message, DesAutels said. "MIME is very useful, but it is very rich and because of that it can be complicated to implement and use. DIME is a way to put multiple pieces of information into one message, but it is simpler and more targeted at the space of Web services," he said. The end goal of DIME, DesAutels said, is to untangle complex Web service interactions, which could involve passing images and video feeds as part of a service. "Using DIME, a Web service could combine text, image, and video in a single message. DIME lets it happen easier," he said. Cathleen Moore is an InfoWorld senior writer.  RELATED SUBJECTS  Business NewsSPONSORED WHITE PAPERS 
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