- From: Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:23:43 -0700
- To: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>, uri@w3.org
At 7:45 PM -0700 8/19/04, Larry Masinter wrote: > > At 3:16 PM -0700 8/19/04, Larry Masinter wrote: >> > When possible, describe what file: URI creators can do >> > to be compatible with the most common file: URI consumers. >> >> What will the process be to determine which the most common file: URI >> consumers are? If we determine them, how do we determine definitively >> what their processing rules are? > >It sounds like you think this is hard. Correct. I think it will be hard to find consensus as to what the "most common" consumers are, and it will be even harder to know what their processing rules are. > I don't think it's necessary to >be exhaustive or insure we have 'the most common' file URI consumers, >as long as we don't miss the important platforms. Whew, that's much easier. >As for determining processing rules: the first step is to look for >documentation, and secondly to ask the implementers. Sometimes it's >easier go get a response if we draft something that purports to >describe an implementation (based on what we can tell) and then >ask for review. Sounds reasonable, although it will clearly take a long time unless we know folks who work on each of the current common consumers. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
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