Re: [apps-discuss] font/* (and draft-freed-media-type-regs)

"Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp> Fri, 18 November 2011 07:03 UTC

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Cc: Ned Freed <ned.freed@mrochek.com>, "apps-discuss@ietf.org" <apps-discuss@ietf.org>, "gadams@xfsi.com Adams" <gadams@xfsi.com>, Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>, David Singer <singer@apple.com>
Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] font/* (and draft-freed-media-type-regs)
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Hello Vlad,

On 2011/11/17 5:01, Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
> Adding Chris Lilley from W3C

> On Tuesday, November 15, 2011 9:17 PM Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

>> Perhaps I am mistaken, but I read the discussion differently: I see an
>> openness to registering font/* now.
>>
>
> Yes. I guess I should've been more specific and should have said that the sentiments expressed few years ago were similar to what was mentioned as part of this discussion (or as quoted from prior discussions). I do see a much more open-minded position to registering font/* now - the question is whether there is still a utility value left in doing this (since we already have quite a few font-* subtypes registered under the application/* tree.

You mention that there are quite a few font types already registered 
under application/. Earlier discussion only brought up 
application/font-tdpfr (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3073), a format 
that as far as I was able to conclude from a quick web search, is no 
longer much in fashion (you may know better).

Can you tell us what the other font types under application/ are?

Regards,    Martin.