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Ballot: URI
Company:
Connect Global Solutions
Vote:
URI only
Comment:
I believe that the URI only option is preferable, as it allows maximum flexibility, a clean spec and implementation, and arbitrary file sizes to be exchanged.

For the benefit of those who have not attended recent conference calls, SOAP attachments only will not work with vary large attachments (e.g. 100's of MBs, which would be typical of software builds).

Hence, is we are going to support SOAP attachments, we still have to support some other mechanism (i.e. URI's) to transfer very large files.

To my mind, it seems pointless to duplicate effort, and necessitate that two separate mechamisms for transferring files be supported. It is preferably by far to support a single, consistent, web-centric method of file exchange and management, which is what a URI-only based system encourages.