Re: [apps-discuss] Call for Adoption: draft-seantek-text-markdown-media-type

[Dave Crocker <[e-mail]>]

On 7/21/2014 12:25 PM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
> This note begins a Call For Adoption for the above document to be
> adopted as an APPSAWG working group item

+1.  Appropriate work to do here.


The argument against a separate wg is well-taken.  In effect, it would
encourage making the effort irrelevant.

While the concern for overly-elaborate handling of variants is also
well-taken, I'm concerned with a media type that has the semantic "it's
this 'class' of thing, with the specific variant, version or deviation
being determined by cultural context."  And yes, that's what it sounds
like the proposal is going towards.

I think that a legitimate packaging convention needs to provide enough
reliable and accurate information to allow reliable and accurate
dispatching into a processing engine that will correctly handle the
data.  This is not usually accomplished very well by a dispatching to an
engine that needs to informal conventions to 'figure out' what it's been
handed.

This all might be easy to resolve.  I can't tell yet.

d/

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Dave Crocker
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