Re: [ietf-types] Registration of media type application/senml+json

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

On Sep 22, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Ned Freed wrote:

> 
>> Le 22 sept. 2010 à 04:34, Peter Saint-Andre a écrit :
> 
>>>> What I think is needed here is a revision/update to RFC 4288 to establish a
>>>> registry of allowed +suffix constructs as well as expanded guidelines for their
>>>> use.
>>> 
>>> That sounds like an excellent idea.
> 
>> Could that include usage of multiple plus for hierarchical typing?
> 
> Anything is possible, but given past resistance to hierarchical structure in
> media types, I think it's a little unlikely we'll get consensus on such a
> mechanism. 
> 
> My personal take is that it's a bad idea, because I think it will encourage
> people to regard these as properties that can be attached to anything or
> placed in any order, which isn't how things work.

It's been so long that I've forgotten - what was the reason to not define new top-level types for things like XML and JSON?

Keith