CORRECTION RE: WG assignments -- WebCGM 1.0 Errata review

At 09:16 AM 9/11/2007 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote:
[...]
>When cgm was registered as a MIME type in 1995, Brian DiAntonio from 
>Carberry Technology was the person who (apparently) knew about that stuff 
>and drove the registration, participating in the ATA GWG.  Chris was 
>involved as well

I was thinking of Alan Francis (UK), whose name is on the registration.  I 
can't say for sure if Chris was involved.  The CGM MIME registration 
pre-dates the kickoff meeting of SVG by three years.  But he was already 
involved in graphics standards in the UK.

You can see the list of contributors at the end of the registration:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/cgm

I guess, since I'm listed, I can't escape the blame altogether.

If you read the whole registration, a few things will pop out.  Like 
"WebCGM" is not valid for ProfileId!  (Because it is not an ISP.)  It would 
be interesting to find out how to do maintenance/edit on a MIME 
registration.  (And also ... should we register WebCGM as an ISP, not so 
much to make it MIME-valid, but more so that it will have standing in ISO?)

-Lofton.

Received on Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:43:23 UTC