- From: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>
- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:15:18 -0400
- To: Rob Lanphier <robla@real.com>
- Cc: Michael Mealling <michael@neonym.net>, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>, uri@w3.org
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 11:43:14AM -0700, Rob Lanphier wrote:
> 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?
I'm not the author of that document so I'm no sure what Graham's
focus is. Graham?
-MM
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