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RE: MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format

"Larry Masinter" <LMM@acm.org> Thu, 17 May 2007 19:18 UTC

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From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
To: 'Dave Singer' <singer@apple.com>, 'Graham Klyne' <GK@ninebynine.org>
Cc: ietf-liaisons@ietf.org, "'Christian Timmerer (ITEC)'" <christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at>, ietf-types@alvestrand.no, ietf-xml-mime@imc.org
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Subject: RE: MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 12:17:50 -0700
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I believe the +xml suffix should be reserved for media types whose content
can be
parsed without any preprocessing by a generic XML parser. A reply
from David Singer indicated that the proposed MPEG 21file format is "binary
and contains within it either XML text or BiM-encoded XML (like a ZIP
archive
with an XML document as the main document.)"

In that case, the use of +xml would (IMO) be inappropriate.

I thought this was clear form RFC 3023, but perhaps not.

Larry

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