Re: [apps-discuss] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-shelby-exi-registration-01.txt

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> On Apr 11, 2012, at 17:57, Ned Freed wrote:

> > And if this is the case, it really isn't suitable for a +exi suffix either.
> > +exi is supposed to mean the format can at least be parsed,  independent of any
> > knowledge of the type semantics. This is why I support the idea of having +ber
> > and +der but not +per - with +per you have to know the ASN.1 schema in order to
> > parse the material properly.

> So how would you handle the PERs and (schema-informed) EXIs of this world?
> Should it be -exi, not +exi?

> (As in application/senml-exi?)

That's definitely an option - an informal sort of suffix. Another alternative
would be to define some other formalism (it really cannot be "-" since other
media types use "-" for other purposes). Looking at the ABNF of allowed
characters, carat is allowed and I don't think it has ever been used. OTOH, how
many things like EXI are ever going to show up?

				Ned