Re: Excess URI schemes considered harmful

At 02:02 PM 9/25/01 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote:
>Again, are you sure? The IANA may not be the registry for these items
>in the future. The IANA is simply the organization that the IETF/ISOC
>has contracted with to provide that service now. Depending on the state
>of politics it may not be so in the future.
>
>IMHO, urn:ietf:params:media-type:text-plain
>
>is much better....

I'll agree this is much better.  A couple of (solvable) problems with that 
format:

*  Ability to map that back into "text/plain", since most systems that deal 
with media types use this form as the internal representation.
*  Ability to express parameters ("text/plain; encoding=flowed")

Is that addressed in the IDs?

Rob