I agree with Jay -- Parallel implies concomitancy, with simultaneous and possbily synchronized presention of multiple streams of data.
So, multipart/related is the more general type for various structural relationships.
Cheers...\Stef
From your message Mon, 8 Jul 1996 21:34:21 -0400: } }In a message dated 96-07-08 21:18:23 EDT, [log in to unmask] (Pete }Resnick) writes: } }> As we discussed privately, the semantics of "multipart/related" seems more }> like the parts refering to eachother as against simply being "a bunch of }> things that belong together". I think perhaps "multipart/parallel" has the }> latter semantics. } }I think multipart/parallel would be something video and audio that are }supposed to play simultaneously, though in reality you'd need some third part }that told you how to choreograph the first two. } }Jay
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