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

["Rushforth, Peter" <[e-mail]>]

Henry, Chris et al.,

> Further to a suggestion from Julian, perhaps if people would 
> chip in with their (un)favourite bugs/problems in/with 3023, 
> I can try to show how the draft [1] addresses them.
> 
> Comments directed straight at the draft w/o reference to 3023 
> are, of course, also welcome.


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

Suggest to remove reference to Appendix A.  Remove Appendix A, also. All
of that stuff is not the business of this RFC, but is the responsibility 
of the registration procedure, in my opinion. 

Suggest to remove discussion of hypertext linking.  XML does not include
hypermedia affordances, so there is a disconnect between what can be expected in
application/xml vs. what is discussed in this RFC.  If an XML vocabulary
contains XLinks, let that vocabulary register its own media type.
Also, relative to the discussion of XLinks in that section, the web is
not limited to XML documents (heck they hardly even exist on the web),
so perhaps XLink itself needs an update to allow linking to non-XML
representations.

Regards,
Peter Rushforth