Re: [arcmedia] FW: [apps-discuss] Proposed charter for arcmedia

[Sean Leonard <[e-mail]>]

On 1/2/2015 5:07 AM, Graham Klyne wrote:
> Hi Stian,
>
> On 02/01/2015 10:54, Stian Soiland-Reyes wrote:
>> I think the whole point of the archive/ type is the general
>> archive/file fall-back, as discussed in the BOF - e.g. the OS/browser
>> can do "I don't know how to deal with this
>> archive/grahams-latest-thing, I'll just throw it at
>> Winzip/7Zip/Archive Manager and hope for the best" - it's a similar
>> default as Notepad for text/* and Gimp for image/*.
>
> I don't know what was said at the BoF.  This being the IETF, it didn't 
> officially happen unless it also appears on the mailing list.
>
> Is this something that you think should appear in the charter?
>
> I'm not entirely convinced that archive/<unknown> has a safe fallback 
> like text/<unknown> ...

The BoF was an official BoF...and minutes were taken. So I think the 
minutes need to be posted to the mailing list. (I forgot who took the 
minutes.)

But yes, this stuff was explicitly discussed; one common motivator is 
that archive/* should have fallback handling that is more specific than 
application/octet-stream. As of 2015, many file archive programs are 
swiss-army knives, handling a wide array of formats.

Cheers,

Sean