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- INTERNET-DRAFT July 1993
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- MHS use of Directory to support MHS Content Conversion
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- Status of this Memo
- This document is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are working
- documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its Areas,
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- Draft.
- Abstract
- User Agents have various capabilities for support of multimedia
- messages. To facilitate interworking between UAs of differing
- capabilities, it is useful for the MTS to be able to perform content
- conversion. This document specifies an approach for X.400 Message
- Handling Systems to perform application level routing using the OSI
- Directory in order to support content conversion. This document
- assumes MHS use of directory to perfom routing accoreding to ``MHS use
- of Directory to support MHS Routing'' [1].
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- This draft document will be submitted to the RFC editor as a protocol
- standard. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Please send
- comments to the author or to the discussion group
- <mhs-ds@mercury.udev.cdc.com>.
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- 1 Protocol Extensions
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- A number of protocol extensions are needed, primarily to support
- content conversion. These extensions may be used with either MTA
- Abstract Service (P1) or MTS Abstract Service (P3). The per-recipient
- extensions are given in Figure 1.
- The following per-recipient extensions are defined.
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- general-explicit-conversion The explicit conversion of X.400 only
- allows for a listed set of conversions. This attribute allows for
- any conversion of body parts to be requested. Built in EITs must
- be represented by their object identifiers.
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- content-conversion This requests for different content types to be
- converted (e.g., content type 22 to 2 downgrade).
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- source-route This gives a sequence of points (either MTAs or MDs)
- which must be traversed in the order given. The points may be
- accessed directly or indirectly for each step. This should be
- stripped as each point is reached. If this element is marked as
- critical for transfer, the route is mandatory, otherwise it is
- advisory. There is some risk of spurious loops being detected.
- This can be specified by a UA or an MTA. An MTA may introduce
- further source routing if a need arises.
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- route-barring This gives a list of points which must not be
- traversed. If this element is marked as critical for transfer,
- the barring is mandatory, otherwise it is advisory.
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- route-restriction This give a list of points which the route must be
- restricted to (e.g., to constrain costs).
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- The following per-message extensions are defined in Figure 2. These
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- warning-interval Some MTAs offer a facility to send (IPMS) warnings
- about a messages delayed transit. This parameter allows the
- warning interval to be specified.
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- last-warning This parameter specifies the time at which the last
- warning was sent. It will ensure that warnings are sent to the
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- general-explicit-conversion EXTENSION
- GeneralExplicitConversion
- ::= id-general-explicit-conversion
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- GeneralExplicitConversion ::= SEQUENCE {
- from ExternalEncodedInformationType,
- to ExternalEncodedInformationType }
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- content-conversion EXTENSION
- ContentConverson 10
- ::= id-content-conversion
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- ContentConversion ::= SEQUENCE {
- from ContentType,
- to ContentType }
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- source-route EXTENSION
- SourceRoute
- ::= id-source-route
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- SourceRoute ::= SEQUENCE OF RouteElement
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- RouteElement ::= CHOICE {
- mta [0] DistinguishedName,
- md [1] DistinguishedName }
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- route-barring EXTENSION
- RouteBarring
- ::= id-route-barring
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- RouteBarring ::= SET OF RouteElement
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- route-restriction EXTENSION
- RouteRestriction
- ::= id-route-restriction
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- RouteRestriction ::= SET OF RouteElement
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- _____________Figure_1:__Per-recipient_Protocol_Extensions______________
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- warning-interval EXTENSION -- interval between user warnings
- INTEGER -- in minutes
- ::= id-warning-interval
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- last-warning EXTENSION -- time last warning was send
- UTCTime
- ::= id-last-warning
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- ______________Figure_2:__Per-message_Protocol_Extensions_______________
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- originator at even intervals.
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- 2 Format Conversion
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- An MTA will determine reformatting requirements for a message in two
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- 1. First, any explicitly requested conversions will be dealt with
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- 2. Second, the recipients capabilities are determined (from the
- directory), and any necessary conversions made. UA capability may
- be determined from any of:
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- o The User's entry
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- o The O/R Address entry
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- o A subtree capability restriction as defined in [1].
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- A choice to do reformatting can only be made by an MTA with access
- to this information. Once an MTA has determined a requirement to
- do reformatting, it should attempt to do this. If this cannot be
- done, or if the requirements are unknown, the message should be
- routed without conversion.
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- In many cases, the MTA will be able to perform conversion locally. In
- some cases, particularly simple MTAs, it may be necessary to perform a
- conversion at a remote MTA. First the remote MTA must be identified.
- Each MTA will maintain a list of MTAs (or MDs??) it uses for
- performing remote conversions. Any MTA offering conversions will
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- mTAUsedForConversion ATTRIBUTE
- WITH ATTRIBUTE-SYNTAX distinguishedNameSyntax
- ::= at-mta-used-for-conversion
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- bodyPartConversionService ATTRIBUTE
- WITH ATTRIBUTE-SYNTAX GeneralExplicitConversion
- ::= at-body-part-conversion-service
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- contentConversionService ATTRIBUTE
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- ::= at-content-conversion-service
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- ______________Figure_3:__Format_Conversion_Registration________________
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- register them in the directory. Thus it is a matter of simple
- matching to determine if one of the MTAs used for conversion services
- offers the conversion needed (perhaps in more than one stage). The
- attributes needed to do this are defined in Figure 3.
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- The attributes defined are:
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- mTAUsedForConversion This defines the set of MTAs which are used by
- an MTA to provide conversion.
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- bodyPartConversionService This defines the services offered by an MTA
- for body part conversion.
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- contentConversionService This defines the services offered by an MTA
- for content type conversion (e.g., 22 to 2 downgrade).
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- This facility can be used for either body part conversion or content
- type conversion.
- In some cases, the MTA performing the conversion will be accessed
- indirectly. In this case, a mandatory source route should be
- specified, in order to ensure that the message is routed to the
- correct MTA.
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- References
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- [1] S.E. Kille. MHS use of the directory to support MHS routing, July
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- 1993. Internet Draft.
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- 3 Security Considerations
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- Security considerations are not discussed in this INTERNET--DRAFT .
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- 4 Author's Address
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- Steve Kille
- ISODE Consortium
- PO Box 505
- London
- SW11 1DX
- England
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- Phone: +44-71-223-4062
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- EMail: S.Kille@ISODE.COM
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- DN: CN=Steve Kille,
- O=ISODE Consortium, C=GB
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- UFN: S. Kille, ISODE Consortium, GB
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- A Object Identifier Assignment
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- mhs-ds OBJECT-IDENTIFIER ::= {iso(1) org(3) dod(6) internet(1) private(4)
- enterprises(1) isode-consortium (453) mhs-ds (7)}
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- conversion OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {mhs-ds 7}
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- oc OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {routing 1}
- at OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {routing 2}
- id OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {routing 3}
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- oc-conversion-mta OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {oc 1}
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- at-body-part-conversion-service OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {at 1}
- at-content-conversion-service OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {at 2}
- at-mta-used-for-conversion OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {at 3}
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- id-alternative-address-information OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 1}
- id-content-conversion OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 2}
- id-general-explicit-conversion OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 3}
- id-logging-level OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 4} 20
- id-route-barring OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 5}
- id-route-restriction OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 6}
- id-source-route OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 7}
- id-last-warning OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 8}
- id-warning-interval OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= {id 9}
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