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

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Sat, 21 April 2012 22:33 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] W3C TAG Comment on Draft Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
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* Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>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, [...]

Yes, indeed. That is the problem with the interpretation you proposed.
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