Re: CORRECTION RE: WG assignments -- WebCGM 1.0 Errata review

I think we should put it (MIME update) on the agenda for the next WG 
telecon, 11 October.

-Lofton.

At 03:03 PM 9/19/2007 +0200, Chris Lilley wrote:

>On Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 5:43:22 PM, Lofton wrote:
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>LH> At 09:16 AM 9/11/2007 -0600, Lofton Henderson wrote:
>LH> [...]
> >>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
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>LH> I was thinking of Alan Francis (UK), whose name is on the registration.  I
>LH> can't say for sure if Chris was involved.
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>I was involved, in that I was already on the IETF-types mailing list at 
>that time, while at the Computer Graphics Unit in Manchester. Alan wrote 
>it, I believe the UK Advisory Group on Computer Graphics (AGOCG) was the 
>body that determined the registration was needed, and I read and commented 
>on the draft before it was finalised.
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>LH>   The CGM MIME registration
>LH> pre-dates the kickoff meeting of SVG by three years.  But he was already
>LH> involved in graphics standards in the UK.
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>Yes, I was.
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>LH> You can see the list of contributors at the end of the registration:
>LH> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/cgm
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>LH> I guess, since I'm listed, I can't escape the blame altogether.
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>LH> If you read the whole registration, a few things will pop out.  Like
>LH> "WebCGM" is not valid for ProfileId!  (Because it is not an ISP.)
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>Ouch, interesting. At the time of the original registration, ISO was 
>clearly seen as the only source of such standards.
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>It seems that a small update to the MIME registration would be useful and 
>would not impact existing implementations, but wold legalise current practice.
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>LH>  It would
>LH> be interesting to find out how to do maintenance/edit on a MIME
>LH> registration.  (And also ... should we register WebCGM as an ISP, not so
>LH> much to make it MIME-valid, but more so that it will have standing in 
>ISO?)
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>I don't know how much work that is or wether it will help, but am 
>interested to hear from those who have more experience with that aspect.
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>Are things like PIPs and so on ISPs?
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>LH> -Lofton.
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>  Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
>  Interaction Domain Leader
>  Co-Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
>  W3C Graphics Activity Lead
>  Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG

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