Re: Request for two new media types submitted

* Phil Archer wrote:
>On behalf of the W3C POWDER Working Group I have have today submitted 
>two registration requests for Media Types. As cited in those requests, 
>the key documentation is section 4 of Protocol for Web Description 
>Resources (POWDER): Description Resources [1]. Although this is formally 
>published as a working draft, we are close to reaching our Candidate 
>Recommendation exit criteria and therefore expect to seek transition to 
>Proposed Recommendation later this month.

>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/powder-dr/#assoc

As per RFC 4288

   As stated previously, standards tree registrations for media types
   defined in documents produced by other standards bodies MUST be
   described by a formal standards specification produced by that body.
   Such specifications MUST contain an appropriate media type
   registration template taken from Section 10.

I could not find such a template in the document. Also, given that
some http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/#xml-media-types in the W3C think

  In general, a representation provider SHOULD NOT assign Internet
  media types beginning with "text/" to XML representations.

A registration request for text/powder+xml from the W3C should not
come without some form of justification for this choice.
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