Re: [apps-discuss] Content Types for Fonts?

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Sat, 26 March 2011 09:40 UTC

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Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2011 10:41:32 +0100
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* Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>>(I think it might be best for the Applications Area Working Group to
>>draw up a list of common data formats with unregistered media types
>>and make a bulk specification that contains the absolute minimum to
>>register them all.
>>
>That is a fine idea, but who would volunteer to write such a spec?

Well, I would volunteer to review and contribute some information that
would be necessary for some types, but I have no interest in arguing
with others about some security considerations being inadequate or who
is to go into the Contact Person field or what to put into bizarre
fields like "Macintosh file type code", much less dealing with any legal
issues that might crop up; otherwise I would probably already have tried
to do this.
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