Issue 18314: Extend GEMS-ASCII message length (gems-rtf) Source: Amergint Technologies (Mr. Rob Andzik, andzik(at)amergint.com) Nature: Uncategorized Issue Severity: Summary: Currently the message length is limited to 999999 characters. This can cause problems translating from GEMS-XML to GEMS-ASCII. It also limits the utility of message sets Resolution: Revised Text: Actions taken: December 13, 2012: received issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== M-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=Vrh8m8iQdMpMFWl2HlCLbj2P9qc+TfHRH2j29GZcykM=; b=wOn95xQp7o2+vtkoJQrqWpPa3pFKBLQpQa67zdBqT21yBfugdRA2Jr/zuN+DqfGnT4 33j4uOsMhOrTQtndqmRT2bgubPN+eWNapKlgJkTMYasMjgthUWjN+3SHffq41aram9Gs npXoBMTZ/wlfy2FAEHk0KvHSa6Hf7M7cRzz5WqEAzyD39T3K1dKN+qUUBGeQc/w/XQHA ybkXqMSl2suFz+cB5kQ1pD4du5ahf0KdzESAl8t39LZzaGQuytKcProXnwnjZ5t7t1NX RjobEAgMZTcn8bVM+w2eRTcI+JGZXK74SvMTOIhjfgwc7tUr6aNtNglZbAS4N+XpF70A vRCQ== From: Rob Andzik Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:15:34 -0800 Subject: GEMS issues To: Juergen Boldt Juergen We would like to file three new issues against GEMS for 1.3 2). Extend GEMS-ASCII message length. Currently the message length is limited to 999999 characters. This can cause problems translating from GEMS-XML to GEMS-ASCII. It also limits the utility of message sets X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=Ow/36AB1Iuo+hvhT53DxNQ7whiUVcrtA+Ye6HmdZx+Q=; b=Ei3/XYjip+KB/j77CNLgfHZeTXelnLWvh6G4fq71SUTnon1Fwi8F/2HtHOLAmLaOH2 AllYYIESwIoGunQCyZqqyumtX+Fup4alf44emlzO1VdoyKxmGS4gBxQE14+yB/DyTLt3 HZg8EQxuFc5+hWwKs/SoVmyEVrjf7IfPkNdNlt8+TWT8P/BUQs5kfcdD5kgBeXnH96ju cSHtGZK9MZECpsp7VOYYGpNBZAwnHnp7rZxCggy70q5+zbTS0SKwT6sW+623gBw8iB1P w0eO9whb2E5v+KUuY080EdNSBId+OFv5qdQbOhAOHDF8STimNgc+Eb1nDtsvAbot9ISs wPaA== X-Received: by 10.112.146.33 with SMTP id sz1mr8381544lbb.47.1374268097623; Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:08:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Rob Andzik Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 15:07:57 -0600 Subject: Issue 18314: Extend GEMS-ASCII message length (DISCUSS) To: "gems-rtf@omg.org" X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnQ6M95uCyi3WGwkL5uXfWKGHxkSexoPBAMjJYvgB248f4N0l2GK6yTnzE94Jj+dHr//8Ty X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at omg.org Issue 18314: Extend GEMS-ASCII message length Currently the GEMS-ASCII message length field is only 6 characters wide, limiting the message length to 999999 characters. There is no such limit on GEMS-XML. Recommend either extending the length to 10 or making this a variable length field. Need to discuss any implications this might have on parsing. How do you know when to give up on a corrupted message? X-Env-Sender: nthompson@rtlogic.com X-Msg-Ref: server-9.tower-219.messagelabs.com!1374500742!3815984!1 X-Originating-IP: [207.109.164.59] X-StarScan-Received: X-StarScan-Version: 6.9.9; banners=-,-,- X-VirusChecked: Checked From: "Thompson, Nigel" To: "andzik@amergint.com" , "gems-rtf@omg.org" Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 07:45:41 -0600 Subject: RE: Issue 18314: Extend GEMS-ASCII message length (DISCUSS) Thread-Topic: Issue 18314: Extend GEMS-ASCII message length (DISCUSS) Thread-Index: Ac6ExCBLVqfL+yRVSn+32CbiwwLrwQCHVx0g Accept-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: yes X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: acceptlanguage: en-US X-Mlf-Version: 7.4.2.7667 X-Mlf-UniqueId: o201307221345420039733 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at omg.org I am inclined to keep this as six characters since I know a lot of code that depends on this. For those applications requiring huge exchanges, can we not recommend they use the XML encoding? If I had to choose between 10 chars and variable length, I.d choose 10 chars as the code changes would be simpler. Nigel From: Rob Andzik [mailto:andzik@amergint.com] Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 3:08 PM To: gems-rtf@omg.org Subject: Issue 18314: Extend GEMS-ASCII message length (DISCUSS) Issue 18314: Extend GEMS-ASCII message length Currently the GEMS-ASCII message length field is only 6 characters wide, limiting the message length to 999999 characters. There is no such limit on GEMS-XML. Recommend either extending the length to 10 or making this a variable length field. Need to discuss any implications this might have on parsing. How do you know when to give up on a corrupted message? smime4.p7s smime4.p7s