- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 16:13:46 -0400
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: > * W3C Recommendations may and indeed should refer to unregistered media > types when necessary to meet the needs of users, e.g. when required for > proper interaction with widely deployed software. In such > circumstances, it is typically appropriate for the Recommendation itself > or for the materials accompanying the submission of the Proposed > Recommendation to briefly explain the reason for dependence on an > unregistered format. > I strongly disagree with this last point. Proper registration of all necessary media types should be a prerequisite for final publication of a recommendation. That is, a recommendation MUST NOT be issued until all referenced media types have been properly registered. It's not like it's all that hard for a media type to be registered. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu Java I/O 2nd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeaulait.org/books/javaio2/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596527500/ref=nosim/cafeaulaitA/
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