RE: Fwd: Last Call: XML Media Types to Proposed Standard

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> In the IETF-XML-MIME ML, Larry Masinter made proposed to slightly
> revise the latest draft (draft-murata-xml-07.txt).  Dave Peterson
> agreed.

> >    For backward compatibility, application/xml and text/xml MAY,
> >    but SHOULD NOT, also be used for "external parsed entities",
> >    "external DTD subsets", and "external parameter entities".

> > I don't think "MAY but SHOULD NOT" is a valid state in RFC 2119
> > terminology, or called for. How about:

> >   application/xml and text/xml MUST NOT be used for "external parsed
> >   entities", "external DTD subsets", and "external parameter entities".
> >   Note that RFC 2376 (obsoleted) allowed this usage, although
> >   in practice it is likely to be rare.

> I spoke with my co-authors: Dan Kohn and Simon St. Laurent.  We
> have agreed to accept the proposed change.

Sounds fine to me. Please submit an updated version of the draft.
Unfortunately, given that this is a change to requirements language I think
we'll have to restart the last call, so the sooner the better on this.

				Ned