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

The least work to remove the self reference would be to do what I suggest here. Keeps it fairly easy if you want to reinstall the reference in a stand-alone request later (if you use ReSpec)

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On Aug 16, 2011, at 12:32 PM, ext Thomas Roessler wrote:

> On 2011-08-16, at 17:36 +0200, <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com> wrote:
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>> Thomas, all
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>> 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
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>> 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).
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> 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.
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>> There are also a number of references to XML Encryption 1.1, the enclosing document.
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>> Putting each inline and attempting to maintain it would be a mistake.
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>> 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.
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> 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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Received on Tuesday, 16 August 2011 17:12:14 UTC