Early Adopter Hailstorm (.NET My Services) - DIME, not MIME?

The reasoning behind the creation of DIME (Direct Internet Message Encapsulation) as MS sees it is twofold: SOAP isn't very good at storing certain types of files (for instance binary image files or other XML files with different character encoding) within a message.

http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/ASP.NET/Sample-Chapter-Early-Adopter-Hailstorm/6/