Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-shelby-exi-registration-01.txt

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 11 April 2012 23:05 UTC

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On Apr 11, 2012, at 17:57, Ned Freed wrote:

> And if this is the case, it really isn't suitable for a +exi suffix either.
> +exi is supposed to mean the format can at least be parsed,  independent of any
> knowledge of the type semantics. This is why I support the idea of having +ber
> and +der but not +per - with +per you have to know the ASN.1 schema in order to
> parse the material properly.

So how would you handle the PERs and (schema-informed) EXIs of this world?
Should it be -exi, not +exi?

(As in application/senml-exi?)

(Again, the media type registration will do a lot more than just tack EXI encoding on existing XML.)

Grüße, Carsten