Issue 4778: Blob data type                                                                                                                                                                                          (dais-ftf)
Source: ABB Power Technologies, Power Automation & Substat (Mr. Lars-Ola Osterlund, lars-ola.g.osterlund@se.abb.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: For the HDAIS RFP a requirement to have support for blob data has emerged. Add a blob data type and include it in the SimpleValue. The blob shall have the members- type specifier (.avi, .jpg, .gif, .wav etc.)- sequence<octet>
Resolution: see above
Revised Text: Refer to comments in [2]
·	LOO1, LOO4, LOO6 in section 4.1

Actions taken:
December 14, 2001: received issue
October 23, 2002: closed issue
Discussion: 
Add a blob data type and include it in the SimpleValue. The blob shall have the members
- type specifier (.avi, .jpg, .gif, .wav etc.) 
- data
 This change shall be implemented in the DAF specification within the scope of the DAIS FTF. The data type for the Blob data shall be a CORBA any.
The type specifier member shall be according to the MIME standard.
Descriptive text shall be added to the DAF spec.

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Blob data type

For the HDAIS RFP a requirement to have support for blob data has
emerged. Add a blob data type and include it in the SimpleValue. The
blob shall have the members- type specifier (.avi, .jpg, .gif, .wav
etc.)- sequence<octet>

Implemented in DAFDescriptions.idl