Re: FW: I-D ACTION:draft-hoschka-smil-media-type-05.txt

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Dan and Philipp,

> Philipp, could I suggest that you review
> <http://www.imc.org/draft-murata-xml>, which is expected to shortly replace
> RFC 2376.  Specifically, I would strongly recommend changing your
> application to application/smil+xml, and quoting the appropriate sections of
> RFC 2376bis by reference rather than by repeating the text.
> 
> Thanks for considering this.
> 
> 		- dan

I raised this issue in January.
-- http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00315.html

Philipp replied. 
--http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00319.html

>However, the use of "application/smil" predates the proposal of 
>appending "-xml" to XML-based MIME types by more than a year - I think
>the first Internet draft dates from April '98. The proposal has
>already been succesfully reviewed in the past on ietf-types,
>but somebody dropped the ball bringing it to the IESG. Given
>this history, and that there is an installed base, it seems reasonable 
>to stick with the current practice of using "application/smil".

I requested addition of this historical reason in the I-D.
-- http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00320.html

>However, in order not to make an antecedent, I would like the I-D to mention 
>this name convention and reasons not to follow it.

Phillip oked.
-- http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00321.html

Phillip, could you revise the I-D as you promised?

Cheers,

IBM Tokyo Research Lab &
International University of Japan, Research Institute

MURATA Makoto