RE: some suggested changes to the specs...

[Chris Weider <cweider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

O.K.... I can live with that.
Chris

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Michael Mealling [SMTP:michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Friday, October 17, 1997 10:07 AM
> To:	Chris Weider
> Cc:	michaelm@xxxxxxxxxx; ietf-schema-reg@xxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: some suggested changes to the specs...
> 
> 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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