Re: Announcement of a new I-D

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From: Chris Lilley <chris@xxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Announcement of a new I-D
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 18:05:16 +0200

> >    The suffix is changed from "-xml" to "|xml".  As of now,
> >    no media types ending with "-xml" are registered yet.
> 
> I looked but did not see any reason given for this change. Is "|" superior
> to "-" in some way? If so, it should be documented. If not, why change it?

Yes, it should be documented.  We will fix this.

At the ietf-822 mailing list, Keith Moore [1] pointed out that "-" is
already used too heavily by existing media types.  Chris Newman [2]
suggested ~!$^+{}| We picked |

As of today, no registered media types [3] use "-xml" yet.

Cheers,

Makoto


[1] http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/mail-archive/msg01797.html
[2] http://www.imc.org/ietf-822/mail-archive/msg01803.html
[3] ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/media-types