Re: Media types and versioning

On 5/22/07, noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Mark Baker writes:
>
> > I'm ok with the second part of that, but if a new version is
> > compatible, then a new media type shouldn't be required.
>
> Which begs the question, what do you mean by compatible?

Dave used the word first, I was just responding.  But I assumed he
meant that instances of the new version of the language could be at
least partially understood by old software.

I won't try to map that to the language of the versioning document,
because I haven't yet reviewed it in detail.

Mark.