- From: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 13:56:45 -0400
- To: Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>, "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 11:34 AM 2001-09-25 , Rob Lanphier wrote: >Please describe the *exact* encoding for the media type "text/plain" under >this scheme. > [Contingent on IANA endorsement what Mark Baker gave us] to refer to _exactly_ what IANA had to say _today_ about the text/plain media type, I believe a valid reference could be spelled <urn:tdb:20010925:http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/t ext/plain> For a reference which recovers what IANA had to say about that type designation as of when you use the reference, you could of course use simply <<http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/text/plain>http: //www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/text/plain> ... and this might return no recovered value for the resource some day. Al >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>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>http://www. ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-eastlake-cturi-02.txt >
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