- From: Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 11:43:14 -0700
- To: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: uri@w3.org
At 02:02 PM 9/25/01 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote:
>Again, are you sure? The IANA may not be the registry for these items
>in the future. The IANA is simply the organization that the IETF/ISOC
>has contracted with to provide that service now. Depending on the state
>of politics it may not be so in the future.
>
>IMHO, urn:ietf:params:media-type:text-plain
>
>is much better....
I'll agree this is much better. A couple of (solvable) problems with that
format:
* Ability to map that back into "text/plain", since most systems that deal
with media types use this form as the internal representation.
* Ability to express parameters ("text/plain; encoding=flowed")
Is that addressed in the IDs?
Rob
Received on Tuesday, 25 September 2001 14:44:06 UTC