Re: some suggested changes to the specs...

[capple@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Christopher W Apple)]

>> > 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....

I think this is already constrained sufficiently in the requirements
document and the (unpublished but will be next week) procedures document.
Hopefully, by using a public mailing list which we require schema writers
to use as a means of submitting schema listing requests, we will eliminate
most of the crap that would otherwise get through, regardless of whether
or not the listing content is MIME-DIR.


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