RE: Requesting a revision of RFC3023

MURATA Makoto wrote:
> and to deprecate text/xml not
> because the charset parameter is harmful but because most XML is not
> text for casual users.

It's not the charset parameter that's harmful, it's its absence.  Or rather
the mandated policy when it is absent: MUST assume ASCII.

But stating that "most XML is not text for casual users" says that there is
no loss in deprecating text/*xml (save perhaps transition issues), the text/
top-level buys nothing of value.

Regards,

-- 
François Yergeau