Re: Starting the ietf-xml-mime mailing list

[MURATA Makoto <murata@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ned,

Thank you for your comments.

 Freed wrote:

> > Each application will be documented by some RFC.
> 
> This isn't true. The standards say that RFC documentation is only required for
> registration in the IETF tree, and in practice none of the many registered
> XML-based types have been backed up with RFCs.

I will revise the summary accordingly.  Registration in the IETF tree and 
that in the vendor tree are quite different.

> > Each specialized application will require a new subtype registration,
> > which takes a lot of time and therefore can have long delays.
> 
> This isn't true. Registrations now routinely take only a few days if
> they don't contain egregious errors. And we've been known to get them done
> in less than a day in some cases.

Is this in the vendor tree?

> > (3) A new parameter "externalid" for text/xml and application/xml
...
> I'm afraid you've missed the biggest problem with this approach -- one 
> that makes it almost a complete nonstarter: The lack of ability to dispatch
> on parameters in most applications that support MIME.

I will add this fact to the summary.

Cheers,

Makoto
 
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