Re: [ietf-types] Registration of media type application/opensearchdescription+xml

[Paul Libbrecht <[e-mail]>]

The same kind of reasoning was made for TeX and Maple media-types, it was deemed not necessary.
The result being... there's about twenty such out there.

Hence I believe it is useful to make some choice beforehand for even the clipboard names so that a reference is used in any case it appears useful.

I believe this is the right place to discuss clipboard names but surely you could try to rewake Apple's four-letter directory.

It looks like you do not see this related, I will not be able to convince you more.

paul


Le 3 nov. 2011 à 13:09, Frank Ellermann a écrit :

> On 3 November 2011 12:24, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> 
>>> is there any problem with XML and clipboards?
>> None, except showing its source to users is ugly.
> 
> Okay, that is apparently unrelated to the business
> at hand, i.e., registering a media type for "OSDs".
> 
>>> If you have any "official" public source that
>>> this is a well-known Mac id.
> 
>> about OSDs? I do not think so.
> 
> No problem, Apple or somebody knowing the details
> can add it later if desired.  The reference in RFC
> 4288 is Apple KB 55381 vintage 1993, and I've read
> the 2008 update (TA25699) about Mac OS9.
> 
>> I do not think there's a lot of danger involved.
> 
> RFC 4288 states that even using the word "none" is
> already dangerous.  AFAIK media type registrations
> are not supposed to "invent" file extensions (or
> file type codes for a historic OS) out of thin air.
> 
> -Frank