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

Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com> Mon, 14 November 2011 19:29 UTC

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From: Frank Ellermann <hmdmhdfmhdjmzdtjmzdtzktdkztdjz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:29:13 +0100
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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] A modest proposal for MIME types (and URI schemes)
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On 14 November 2011 19:56, Nico Williams wrote:

>> in the real world the "secret mission" of the IETF
>> is IMHO to protect the IANA from "patent nonsense".

> I assume you're not referring to patents here (as in IPR).

"Patent nonsense" is one of the reason for a "speedy
deletion" in Wikipedia.  IANA is not a Wikipedia, it
has no "recent change patrol" to revert vandalism or
controversial "bold" registrations.

> I think IANA can jufge frivolous requests.  If not
> we can require enough review to filter out frivolous
> requests.

That they do not not have to judge this (generally),
because there is an appointed expert and an appeal
chain independent of IANA, is a feature of most IANA
registries I'm interested in.

>From my five happIANA tests the one not yet handled
is a about a registry populated by RFCs, where an old
value in an RFC published before the registry existed
did not yet make it into the registry (as "historic").

-Frank

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