- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Sun, 6 Oct 1996 01:12:20 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Larry Masinter: > >Why not have 'feature' registration work the same way as 'media type' >registration in IANA, rather than inventing another mechanism? ??? We are already planning to do this. Some time ago, we were discussing it with you in private e-mail. I hope that we will be able to finish a feature registration draft within a week. We have been working on the core feature set first; it is hard to define a good feature registration form if you don't have some specific features to try as test-cases. >See, for example, > draft-ietf-822ext-mime-reg-04.txt Yes, this is the draft we are using as a basis. [...] >Some of the features listed are media type specific (html tables); >others are independent of media type and cut across those boundaries >(color, size). Shouldn't those be sorted out? What do you mean by sorting them out? The use of specific naming conventions which indicate scope? I don't know yet if we need something like a predefined set of feature prefixes. MIME types have such a prefix set and USENET newsgroups have such a prefix set, so maybe feature tags also need one. However, at this point I have no idea what would have to be in the prefix set for feature tags. >Regards, > >Larry Koen.
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