Re: Media types

On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 10:22 +0700, James Clark wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Liam R E Quin <liam@w3.org> wrote:

> I've just found RFC6657 which changes the rules on charset handling for
> text/* media types. I think this would also make text/microxml a viable
> option.

Yes, that's a good point.


> I had a look at RFC3023 (the XML Media Types RFC) and found this:
[...]

wow, thanks for dredging that up!


> This suggest to me that application/micro+xml or application/*+micro+xml
> are reasonable (at least in the opinion of the XML Media Types RFC's
> authors).

Murata-San and Martin Duerst, possibly.


> W3C has a fast-track process for MIME media type registrations but only
> > for formats whose specification is on the (not so fast) W3C Rec track.
> 
> 
> I guess we could try to publish our spec as an RFC as well as as a W3C CG
> report.

If there's enough uptake that may make sense, or even as a W3C
Recommendation if there are people willing to do the work.

Liam

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