Re: media type registration (Re: Draft minutes from 16 August 2011)

On 2011-08-16, at 17:36 +0200, <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com> wrote:

> Thomas, all
> 
> I think it is a very confusing policy to embed a registration document within another document as the references for the two become intermixed and formatting becomes that of the enclosing document etc
> 
> That said, the XML Encryption 1.1 media type section contains many references that are now listed in the references of the enclosing document. I think we should keep it that way to simplify maintenance of references (also that is where you'd expect to find document references as a reader).
> 

It's fine with me to keep the registration's references in the enclosing document.  I can fix this effect when the registration request gets submitted.

> There are also a number of references to XML Encryption 1.1, the enclosing document.
> 
> Putting each inline and attempting to maintain it would be a mistake.

> Thus I think we should go with another approach mentioned on the call today, and change each reference in this section to XML Encryption 1.1 to be the text
> "XMLENC-CORE1 (this document)" instead of [XMLENC-CORE1]. This should be clear within the context of the enclosing document and similar to the reference that would be used in a separate media type submission request. No corresponding reference will be included in the list of references.

No strong opinion either way on my side — this is the level of detail where I'd be happy to make the decision based on whatever is less work.

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