Re: [apps-discuss] I-D Action: draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-suffix-regs-08.txt

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> internet-drafts writes:

> > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> >  This draft is a work item of the Applications Area Working Group Working Group of the IETF.
> >
> > 	Title           : Additional Media Type Structured Syntax Suffixes
> > 	Author(s)       : Tony Hansen
> >                           Alexey Melnikov
> > 	Filename        : draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-suffix-regs-08.txt

> Given that

>   draft-lilley-xml-mediatypes-00

> has now been published, is the patch to RFC3023 in section 4 of this
> document really necessary?

Short answer: Yes.

Long answer: The fact that another draft has been posted doesn't mean that it
will ever become an RFC, or if it does, that it will happen in a useful amount
of time. My records indicate that the process that led to RFC 3023 being
published in January, 2001 actually began no later than April, 1999 - and that
was when there were far fewer players and much simpler concerns to address.

Additionally, this is a consensus document that has been through last call and 
is close to being approved for publication. Reopening it now just to remove
something that might possibly in the future be addressed by some other document
makes no sense.

				Ned