Re: [apps-discuss] [taugh.com-standards] Review of draft-levine-application-gzip-01.txt

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 10 April 2012 13:24 UTC

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I don't feel strongly about gzip vs. x-gzip but I also don't think
there is much x-gzip now. There is a good chance that DMARC will use
whichever it defines. Will look for a better ref than gzip.net
although the real refs are the RFCs of course.

r's from my Kindle
John

On 4/10/12, Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> wrote:
> Hi John,
> I am sorry I've missed this document earlier.
>
> I am generally happy that you wrote this draft and support its
> publication. Having said that, I think it needs some changes:
>
> In Section 1:
>
>     Some applications have informally used the media type application/
>     x-gzip.  The media types defined in this document should replace that
>     media type in future applications.
>
> Also I've seen application/x-gzip-compressed being mentioned on the web.
>
> But I think it would be better to wait for
> draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs-04 to be submitted to IESG (it is in
> the APPSAWG WGLC now). That document would relax restrictions on
> registering x-* media types. I think your document should register media
> types already in use, as changing existing implementations to use
> application/gzip is hopeless at this point, unless there is some
> evidence that application/gzip is also in use. In the latter case
> aliasing mechanism proposed in draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs should
> be used.
>
> 3.1.  Regsistration Details
>
>     Person and email address to contact for further information: see
>     http://www.gzip.net/
>
> I've just tried this URI and I am getting "this domain is for sale". It
> doesn't look like this is a good stable reference.
>
> 5. References
>
> This Section should be named "Normative References".
>
> Nit: spot typos in names of Sections 2.1 and 3.1.
>
>