Re: [apps-discuss] A modest proposal for MIME types (and URI schemes)

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Ned Freed <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> >> * DO NOT try to avoid duplicates
>> >
>> > I'm not sure this makes sense. I think it would make sense if it read "give
>> > up on trying to avoid duplicates at all cost". But it almost reads like
>> > "let's have many duplicates, this will be fun".
>
>> I think we should discourage collisions, but the very existence of the
>> registry does that.  If a collision arose from registry avoidance, and
>> implementations have been deployed widely, then what more can we do
>> but accept it?
>
> Agreed, but in practice it doesn't seem like outright collisions have
> been much of an issue.

I think what Roy F. is saying is that the cost of registration has to
come down a lot.  If collisions are a problem at all they must be a
relatively small problem, and you (and Roy F.) claim that collisions
are of little consequence, in which case we can lower the cost of
registration still more.

Nico
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