Media type for 300/406 responses?

Hi,

I have come across this[1] posting by Roy yesterday regarding the  
standardization of 300 and 406 response media types.

Personal experience suggests that it would be worthwhile to draft such  
a media type but before doing so, I have a question regarding the  
following quote:

   "the response SHOULD include an entity containing
   a list of available entity characteristics and
   location(s)" [2]

So far I can see these entity characteristics:

- media type
- language
- encoding

Should I (besides extensibility) consider any other entity  
characteristics, e.g of those found in[3]? Length for example?

Thanks,

Jan




[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-dist-auth/1997JulSep/0054.html
[2] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.7
[3] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.1

Received on Thursday, 26 November 2009 08:33:08 UTC