- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 09:11:20 -0400
- To: www-tag@w3.org
Hi All, We have been having an interesting discussion on the public- appformats mail list regarding whether or not a Media Type should be registered for the XBL2 spec [XBL2]. The head of the discussion is at [HEAD]. Mark Nottingham suggested in [MN] that we move this discussion to the www-tag mail list. There are a number of relevant documents on this general issue including: the [TAG-MIME] finding that includes benefits of using Media Types; the [REGISTER] doc that includes instructions for how to register a media type; the [TAG-METADATA] finding that includes some relevant Best Practices. Process-wise, I am interested in: a) the precedence here wrt registering versus not registering Media Types for formats defined by the W3C; and b) some specific guidelines/criteria we can follow. In general, the above docs (particularly [TAG-MD]) describe the benefits of Media Type thus to a certain extent I think the task at hand is for the opponents of a Media Type for XBL2 to clearly articulate their rationale for opposing the registration. Regards, Art Barstow --- [XBL2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/> [HEAD] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2006Sep/ 0068.html> [MN] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-appformats/2006Sep/ 0083.html> [TAG-MIME] <http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2004/0430-mime> [REGISTER] <http://www.w3.org/2002/06/registering-mediatype> [TAG-METADATA] <http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect-20060412>
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