Re: some suggested changes to the specs...

[Michael Mealling <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Weider said this:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Michael Mealling [SMTP:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent:	Thursday, October 16, 1997 5:26 PM
> > To:	ietf-schema-reg@xxxxxxx
> > Subject:	some suggested changes to the specs...
> > 
> > Hi all!
> > 
> > After being out of touch for a few weeks and seeing what came out of
> > the discussions I missed I had a few nits to pick. I always hate it
> > when a discussion gets re-opened so if I'm out of line please let me
> > know.
> > 
> > The first nit was that we had gotten away from allowing arbitrary 
> > representations of a schema. I'm not suggesting that the listing
> > service
> > need to understand arbitrary representations, just be able to store
> > and
> > return them on request. My concern was that if we required everyone
> > to translate their schema's into and back out of the MIME-DIR version
> > that
> > it would be too high a barrier for adoption.
>
> 	[Chris Weider]  Ah, but without some recommended schema we're
> allowing folks to register any old crap whether it's useful or not.
> 

I never suggested getting rid of the required/recommended one. Just that
in addition to it we allow other stuff. I'd rather have useful and
non-useful stuff in the registry as opposed to nothing at all....

-MM

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