Re: RFC 3023 bis (was: RE: well-formedness error)

["MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)" <EB2M-MRT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:37:57 +0900
Martin Duerst <duerst@xxxxxx> wrote:

> If it's a bug, it's a bug in the MIME specification. There is a plan
> for a next version of RFC 3023, but this plan at this point does not
> include any changes to the us-ascii default for text/xml and friends,
> as far as I know. The plan is actually to depreciate any used of
> text/* for xml, because the original intent of text/* was data that
> was directly readable to the end user. application/* (or on some
> occasions other top-level types such as image/*) should be used.

I am a co-author of RFC 3023 and intend to do what Martin said.  Although 
I understand the desire to use the encoding dcl for text/xml, it is not 
possible without revising MIME specs and implementations.  Furthermore, 
there are no reasons to use text/xml for Atom.

Cheers,

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MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) <EB2M-MRT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>