Re: [apps-discuss] Getting 3023bis, a.k.a. draft-ietf-appsawg-xml-mediatypes, moving

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> Rushforth, Peter writes:

> > Section 8.
> >
> > Suggest to remove the recommendation to register media types with +xml
> > suffix.  Suggest to add recommendation for a 'profile' parameter for application/xml,
> > as is being done for atom : http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilde-atom-profile-01

> I have to say I'm not inclined to go that way.  There is a _very_
> large installed base, particularly of application/xhtml+xml and
> application/rdf+xml.  There are around 100 registered
> application/xxx+xml media types registered _outside_ the
> vnd... sub-space, and another 200 or so there.  We recently spent a
> lot of time getting both the general approach to registering
> structured suffixes and their uses [1] and using that approach to
> clean up / document existing practices [2], including the +xml case.

> Introducing an alternative profile-based approach at this point would
> just confuse things, IMO.

I strongly agree. We're currently seeing a large number of registrations
coming in and momentum seems to be building. The absolute last thing we should
be doing is making changes that break that. We have seen the effect of such
changes in the past; it was not good.

				Ned