- From: Joseph Reagle <reagle@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:40:31 -0500
- To: Keith Moore <moore@cs.utk.edu>
- Cc: LMM@acm.org, w3c-policy@apps.ietf.org, www-tag@w3.org
Putting aside my confusion or disagreement with both of your reasons -- not uncommon to happen on this topic -- I want to focus on my immediate requirement: who/how do I ask such that URIs are allocated for the registered mediatypes (and better yet their paramter/values)? On Wednesday 16 January 2002 14:33, Keith Moore wrote: > > Nor any policy that they should not. > > I would strongly argue *against* defining a URL for each media-type. > First, because this would constrain how IANA organizes its site in > the future. Second, because it would encourage the practice of > using URLs in place of registered names, thereby creating confusion > and bypassing the established mechanisms for registration of those names. > > Keith -- Joseph Reagle Jr. http://www.w3.org/People/Reagle/ W3C Policy Analyst mailto:reagle@w3.org IETF/W3C XML-Signature Co-Chair http://www.w3.org/Signature/ W3C XML Encryption Chair http://www.w3.org/Encryption/2001/
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