Re: Request for comments regarding draft-mccobb-xplusv-media-type-01

[Bjoern Hoehrmann <[e-mail]>]

* Gerald McCobb wrote:
>2.1 application/xhtml+voice+xml Usage
>
>   The application/xhtml+voice+xml media type is intended to be a media
>   descriptor for XHTML+Voice documents.
>
>   This media type registration is not intended for email usage.

The draft does not really explain why there is a need for such a
type in the first place; why don't you use application/xhtml+xml?

>      Optional parameters:
>   version:  refers to the XHTML+Voice language version in the document.
>             Acceptable values are 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2 (default).

What are the processing requirements for this parameter?

>   charset:  has the same meaning as the text/html media type.  See
>   section 2 of [RFC 2854].

A word seems to be missing here. It is not really clear why the draft
refers to RFC 2854 rather than RFC 3023 or RFC 3236. 

>      Security considerations:
> 
>   XHTML+Voice is an extension of XHTML and has the same security issues
>   as XHTML.  These include interpreting anchors and forms in HTML
>   documents, and scripting languages and other dynamic interactive
>   capabilities.  See section 7 of [RFC 2854].

So the extensions to XHTML have no security considerations?

>         File extension(s): html, htm, mxml, xvml

I don't think .html and .htm should be listed here, they are already in
common use for application/xhtml+xml and text/html.

>4. Fragment Identifiers
>
>   See section 3 of [RFC 2854].

It is unclear what this means, RFC 2854 and RFC 3236 have inconsistent
rules for fragment identifiers and XHTML+Voice adds new ID attributes
so that the fragment identifier namespaces are different.

>6. Security Considerations
>
>   Security considerations for this media type are discussed in the MIME
>   type registration that appears in section 4.

Section 4 has no security considerations...

>7. References

The draft should be clear about which of these references are
informative and which normative.
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