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

"t.petch" <ietfc@btconnect.com> Tue, 15 November 2011 10:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] A modest proposal for MIME types (and URI schemes)
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I would suggest reading
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg68153.html
and then changing the subject line.

Tom Petch


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Masinter" <masinter@adobe.com>
To: <apps-discuss@ietf.org>
Cc: "Roy Fielding" <fielding@adobe.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2011 7:59 PM
Subject: [apps-discuss] A modest proposal for MIME types (and URI schemes)


> I'd like to discuss the proposal for MIME registrations from Roy Fielding in
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/happiana/current/msg00187.html
> and the possibility that such changes should also apply to URI schemes.
>
> You can read Roy's rationale, which makes sense to me, but my summary is:
>
> * Eliminate standards, vendor, personal trees distinction for MIME types (For
URI schemes, eliminate distinction between provisional and permanent schemes)
> * ENCOURAGE vendors to ship with vendor-neutral short-named types regardless
of whether they have been registered yet or not;
>    ENCOURAGE the public to register any names that they have seen in deployed
software. (same for URI schemes)
> * DO NOT try to avoid duplicates
> * EXPERT REVIEW for updates to existing registrations
> * Eliminate any IESG or consensus review requirement
>
> "There is absolutely no need to prevent name collisions in the registry itself
because those collisions are irrelevant -- what matters is how the names are
interpreted by recipients of messages."
> "There is absolutely no need to prevent people who are not the owners of a
media type from registering that type without any prefixes."
> "The registry is not operable -- it is just documentation of how the Internet
is operating, and it should reflect the reality of that operation even if that
means we have multiple definitions per registered type."
>
> I find this perspective appealing, and can't find anything wrong with it
except that it's a break with tradition. If you're at IETF this week and want to
talk about it, find me.
>
> Larry
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