- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:23:18 +0200
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Well, point taken, but it's certainly lower-cost than spooling up a whole new TLD. Of course, that's partially the point; minting a TLD gives some people an incentive, as it's effectively a land grab. Perhaps this asymmetry could be rectified by allowing major type "owners" to charge for media type registrations... Cheers, On 2006/05/17, at 2:46 AM, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote: > > I wrote: > >> Indeed, or why not: application/telephoneNumber+xml > > Sometimes I fall prey to thinking about the Web as I intuit it should > work, rather than as it is. On reflection, assigning media types for > little things like phone numbers probably doesn't scale. If the > namespace > for media types were of finer grain, and if the registration > mechanism had > richer facilities for delegation of subtype allocation, then maybe > this > would work (and some other things would get more complicated). > Anyway, I > think the intuition that a phone number is a type and not a name > format is > a fairly sound one, but media-types in particular are probably best > used > for a smaller number of coarser-grained types. Oh well. -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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