Re: [ietf-types] Request for review application/gml+xml

[Julian Reschke <[e-mail]>]

On 2012-01-11 08:05, Jan Algermissen wrote:
> Carl,
>
> On Jan 11, 2012, at 2:54 AM, Carl Reed wrote:
>
>> "version": If provided, this parameter indicates the GML version
>>     used in the GML document. Only the major and the first minor
>>     version number are provided, e.g. "3.2".
>>
>>     The value may be provided with or without quotes. i.e.,
>>     application/gml+xml; version=3.1 shall be treated as identical to
>>     application/gml+xml; version="3.1".
>>
>>     In cases where elements from multiple GML versions are used,
>>     the parameter shall indicate the highest GML version used in the
>>     document.
>>
>>     The parameter can be used to provide protocol-specific operations,
>>     such as version-based content negotiation in HTTP
>
> I cannot find the reference just now, but if I am not seriously wrong, media type parameters are not taken into account by HTTP conneg. (How could they, given that their meaning is defined by the media type itself except for q and charset et al.
> ...

Why would that be a problem?

See

<http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-18.html#rfc.section.6.1.p.13>

Best regards, Julian