- From: Larry Masinter <LMM@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 00:31:52 -0800
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
In regard to the request from the XML Protocols Working Group for guidelines for W3C working group media types, I will point out a fairly substantial archived discussion of these and related issues at: http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/ You should consider inviting the editors of RFC 3023 (XML Media Types) to join any discussion of MIME media types for XML bodies. The issue of adding various URIs as parameters for XML media types was discussed in many many many messages; the earliest I can find was the discussion starting in http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00009.html in April 1999. For what it's worth, I was opposed in 1999 to adding additional parameters to XML-based media types http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00008.html and I still think it's a bad idea. application/soap+xml still looks pretty good to me. The XML protocol working group has discussed this issue ad naseum (e.g., http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-dist-app/2000Dec/0155.html is one message amongst many threads on the topic.) Larry -- http://larry.masinter.net
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