On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:43:14AM -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote: > 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? I'm not the author of that document so I'm no sure what Graham's focus is. Graham? -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | urn:pin:1 michael@neonym.net | | http://www.neonym.netReceived on Tuesday, 25 September 2001 17:19:57 GMT
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