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Re: [dispatch] Proposal to add 'haptics' as a new top-level media type - Comments welcome [Was RE: draft-muthusamy-dispatch-haptics-00.txt]

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Subject: Re: [dispatch] Proposal to add 'haptics' as a new top-level media type - Comments welcome [Was RE: draft-muthusamy-dispatch-haptics-00.txt]
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David Singer <singer=40apple.com@dmarc.ietf.org> writes:
> I don't think we should mix up what's needed for sub-type
> registration, with establishment of the top-level type. Yeshwant can
> and should cite examples in the industry, but it's not for him to
> register other people's formats, of course.

As a general rule, I agree.  But in practice, the best thing to drive
the creation of a top-level media type is a bunch of subtypes that
people *want* to see registered.  And the best thing to drive that is
minimally-encumbered interoperabilty.

Dale

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