- From: Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:25:38 +0100
- To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org, Paul Cotton <Paul.Cotton@microsoft.com>, "noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>, "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Maciej Stachowiak writes: > <commenting with HTML WG chair hat off> Likewise speaking only for myself > I understand the desire to satisfy the MIME registration compatibility > requirements. However, it looks to me like this proposed text makes > HTML 2.0, HTML 3.2, and HTML 4.0 conforming for the text/html MIME > type, whereas RFC2854 only allowed HTM 4.01. Are these additions > intentional? I don't understand the purpose of expanding conformance > relative to the previous registration to include these long-obsolete > specifications. We have to be very careful with language here. IETF policy for reregistration of media types in general, and RFC2854 in particular, is that they have _nothing_ to say about conformance to the language specs that they reference -- that is left to those specifications. Furthermore, although it's fine for successive language specs referenced by successive RFCs (re)registering a particular media type to add/subtract/change language features, that does _not_ affect the core commitment that documents from the earlier language versions, as referenced in preceding media type (re)registrations, are OK to _serve_ with the specified media type. That's _all_ that's at issue in the media type registration. So RFC2854 says "Now you can serve HTML 4 as text/html" as well as saying "and all that stuff you used to be able to serve as text/html -- still OK to serve as text/html". I think Ian and I are on the same page now wrt this issue, if I understand his earlier response correctly. > Also: RFC2854 allows a profile of XHTML 1.0 (presumably Appendix C) to > be sent as text/html, whereas the proposed text below does not. Is the > omission intentional? I'll pick that up in a separate message. ht - -- Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 651-1426, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFL0JSlkjnJixAXWBoRAm1oAJ0YZZpPIxSV5tT1D6YHv8RA6X3xhACeNN2D NF6Gz67eUeynd5IObJ+zoRM= =Mk9J -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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