Re: How many coding registries should we have? (Issue 143), was: Issue 189, Re: Content/Transfer-Codings organization/IANA considerations (issue 143, 188, 189) from Julian Reschke on 2010-04-09 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2010)

From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:52:05 +0200
To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
CC: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <4BBEDCA5.6070106@gmx.de>

On 09.04.2010 05:10, Mark Nottingham wrote:
> Personally, I like how IANA has it set up now; a little bit of duplication never hurt anyone, and it avoids the "oh, I didn't notice that column" defence.
>
> Really, though, as long as it's clear where each can be used, I don't have a problem.

So how about just stating: "IANA should ensure that content coding and 
transfer coding names may only be the same when the encoding is the same"?

Best regards, Julian

Received on Friday, 9 April 2010 07:53:00 UTC