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Network Working Group H. Alvestrand Request for Comments: 2161 UNINETT Category: Experimental January 1998

                      A MIME Body Part for ODA

Status of this Memo

 This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
 community.  It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
 Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
 Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

 Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.

Table of Contents

  Status of this Memo ........................................    1
 1 Introduction ..............................................    1
 1.1 The Application/ODA MIME content-type ...................    1
 1.2 ODA - application/oda ...................................    2
 2 Security Considerations ...................................    3
 3 References ................................................    4
 4 Author's Address ..........................................    4
 5 Full Copyright Statement ..................................    5

1. Introduction

 This document contains the definitions, originally contained in RFC
 1495 and RFC 1341, on how to carry ODA in MIME, and how to translate
 it to its X.400 representation.

1.1. The Application/ODA MIME content-type

 The "ODA" subtype of application is used to indicate that  a body
 contains  information  encoded according to the Office Document
 Architecture  [ODA]   standards,  using  the  ODIF representation
 format.   For  application/oda, the Content-Type line should also
 specify an attribute/value  pair  that indicates  the document
 application profile (DAP), using the key word "profile", and the
 document class, using the keyword "class".
 For the keyword "class", the values "formatted", "processable" and
 "formatted-processable" are legal values.

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 Thus an appropriate header field  might look like this:
 Content-Type:  application/oda; profile=Q112; class=formatted
 Consult the ODA standard [T.411] for further information.
 The Base64 content-transfer-encoding is appropriate for carrying ODA.

1.2. ODA - application/oda

 X.400 Body Part: ODA
 MIME Content-Type: application/oda
 Conversion: None
 Comments:
 The ODA body part is defined in the CCITT document T.411 [T.411],
 appendix E, section E.2, "ODA identification in the P2 protocol of
 MHS"
 An abbreviated version of its ASN.1 definition is:
  oda-body-part EXTENDED-BODY-PART-TYPE
          PARAMETERS      OdaBodyPartParameters
          DATA            OdaData
          ::= id-et-oda
  OdaBodyPartParameters ::= SET {
          document-application-profile    [0] OBJECT IDENTIFIER
          document-architecture-class     [1] INTEGER {
                                          formatted (0)
                                          processable (1)
                                          formatted-processable(2)}}
  id-et-oda OBJECT IDENTIFIER ::= { 2 8 1 0 1 }
 Mapping from X.400 to MIME, the following is done:
 The Parameters.document-application-profile is mapped onto the MIME
 parameter "profile" according to the table below.
 Profile         OBJECT IDENTIFIER
 Q112            { iso (1) identified-organization (3) ewos (16)
                   eg (2) oda (6) profile (0)  q112 (1) }

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 The Parameters.document-architecture-class is mapped onto the MIME
 parameter "class" according to the table below.
 String                  Integer
 formatted               formatted(0)
 processable             processable(1)
 formatted-processable   formatted-processable(2)
 NOTE: This parameter is not defined in RFC 1341.
 The body of the MIME content-type is the Data part of the ODA body
 part.
 When mapping from MIME to X.400, the following steps are done:
 The Parameters.document-application-profile and Parameters.document-
 architecture-class are set from the tables above.  If any of the
 parameters are missing, the values for Q112 and formatted-processable
 are used.
 It is an option for the gateway implementor to try to access them
 from inside the document, where they are defined as
 document-profile.document-characteristics.document-architecture-class
 document-profile.document-characteristics.document-application-
 profile
 Gateways are NOT required to do this, since the document-
 characteristics are optional parameters.  If a gateway does not, it
 simply uses the defaulting rules defined above.
 The OBJECT IDENTIFIERs for the document application profile and for
 ODA {2 8 0 0} must be added to the Encoded Information Types
 parameter of the message envelope.

2. Security Considerations

 ODA body parts have the natural propensity of complex structures that
 it is hard to find out what the parts are capable of.
 Moreover, ODA is an extensible architecture, where new content
 portions may be added at any time, so that the threats posed by this
 body part may change over time.
 However, no security risks related to ODA are known at this time.

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3. References

 [MIME]
    Freed, N., and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose
    Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One:  Format of Internet Message
    Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996.
 [T.411]
    CCITT Recommendation T.411 (1988), Open Document Architecture
    (ODA) and Interchange Format, Introduction and General
    Principles.

4. Author's Address

 Harald Tveit Alvestrand
 UNINETT
 Postboks 6883 Elgeseter
 N-7002 TRONDHEIM
 Phone: +47 73 59 70 94
 EMail: Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no

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5. Full Copyright Statement

 Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1998).  All Rights Reserved.
 This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to
 others, and derivative works that comment on or otherwise explain it
 or assist in its implementation may be prepared, copied, published
 and distributed, in whole or in part, without restriction of any
 kind, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are
 included on all such copies and derivative works.  However, this
 document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing
 the copyright notice or references to the Internet Society or other
 Internet organizations, except as needed for the purpose of
 developing Internet standards in which case the procedures for
 copyrights defined in the Internet Standards process must be
 followed, or as required to translate it into languages other than
 English.
 The limited permissions granted above are perpetual and will not be
 revoked by the Internet Society or its successors or assigns.
 This document and the information contained herein is provided on an
 "AS IS" basis and THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING
 TASK FORCE DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING
 BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION
 HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
 MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

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