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"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> Fri, 13 April 2012 21:27 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.

The right reference is www.gzip.org, which has been around for
15 years and seems unlikely to go away.

R's,
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.
>>
>>
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