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Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:11:33 -0600
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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] A modest proposal for MIME types (and URI schemes)
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On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com> 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 lik=
e
>> > "let's have many duplicates, this will be fun".
>
>> I think we should discourage collisions, but the very existence of the
>> registry does that. =C2=A0If 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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