- From: Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 08:34:17 -0700
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, "Tim Berners-Lee" <timbl@w3.org>, "Larry Masinter" <LMM@acm.org>, <harald.alvestrand@maxware.no>, "Dan Zigmond" <djz@corp.webtv.net>, "Rich Petke" <rpetke@wcom.net>
- Cc: <uri@w3.org>, "Dan Connolly" <connolly@w3.org>
At 10:48 AM 9/25/01 -0400, Al Gilman wrote: >For alternate proposal [to the Eastlake proposal [1]], see Masinter's >'tdb' scheme. > >http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-dated-uri-00.txt > >The information desired is provided by a namespaced reference to the >[sub-] type name where the namespace binds the usage to a dated version of >the IANA registry contents. > >The IANA Registry provides the defining instance of the name/definition >association for Internet Media Types. A dated reference is needed to >create a fixed referend, as the registry is editable and may later bind >new definition to a pre-existing name string. > >The cturi: scheme capability is IMHO entirely handled within the >capabilities of the tdb: scheme as proposed by Masinter. Not necessarily >to say the latter is perfect, but it is enough better so that the cturi: >proposal should not be revived unless thatDescribedBy dated reference to a >name as used in the IANA registry (of date certain) is somehow found not >to do the job. Please describe the *exact* encoding for the media type "text/plain" under this scheme. Thanks Rob [1] http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-eastlake-cturi-02.txt
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