Re: [media-types] More questions for multiple suffixes (Re: WG: IETF 112 agenda)

[Mark Nottingham <[e-mail]>]

> On 8 Nov 2021, at 10:28 am, Manu Sporny <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On 11/7/21 4:54 PM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>> I can imagine some more questions that can be raised about multiple
>> suffixes
> 
> All good questions, which you seem to have answered in a way that is aligned
> w/ the current ID.
> 
> I didn't know about the the media-type-structured-suffix registry, and note
> that +ld+json wasn't registered for JSON-LD... but probably should be?
> 
> I don't know if we have to write anything more to do that, though... it's
> something to dig into to make sure RFC6838 is clear that you can register both
> +json and +ld+json as a structured syntax suffix.

The ability to do so was what I thought this session was about. Note that 6838 defines structured suffixes in terms of 'the final + in a subtype name' -- so it's questionable as to whether you can include a '+' in a structured suffix right now.

Have you considered just registering '+ldjson'?


> Harald, do you want me to add a slide that includes your questions for
> discussion time? 10 minutes might be too short and we might want to handle
> those via the mailing list and via the Github issue tracker?

FWIW, I think Harald has hit upon many of the central questions, and we should focus on them in the time we have.

Another is that 6838 describes the use case for suffixes as 'well-known structuring syntaxes' -- whereas linked data is a data model, not a syntax. While there's some fuzziness in this area, it might be good to talk about whether linked data is a 'structuring syntax' or something else.

Cheers,

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