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Re: [apps-discuss] W3C TAG Comment on Draft Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures

ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) Sat, 21 April 2012 22:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] W3C TAG Comment on Draft Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
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Bjoern Hoehrmann writes:

> Saying that an inferior authority must obey a superior authority does
> not imply that the superior authority is limited by choices any such
> inferior authorities have made. We might find that taking such choices
> into consideration is the responsible thing to do, but that is not what
> the text says, and certainly not how authorities tend to operate. Look
> no further than the +xml discussions where people do not find they need
> to re-define +xml in a manner compatible with all existing +xml types.

Actually, we've been continuing to struggle with that, and I _believe_
the next draft of 3023bis will fix that.

ht
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