- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:13:15 -0500
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: mark@coactus.com, www-tag@w3.org
Thanks for the comments Mark (and to everyone else who's responded). We've scheduled a brief review at the F2F tomorrow. I'll try and make sure that your comments are considered. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 -------------------------------------- "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org> Sent by: mark@coactus.com 02/27/2008 12:22 AM To: "noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com" <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com> cc: www-tag@w3.org Subject: Re: New Draft of TAG Finding "The Self-Describing Web" That's a great start, Noah. Some comments as I go through it ... - I'd suggest not using "application/xml" in your example in sec 2 (or in 4.4) because in practice it's used primarily in a non-descriptive way, i.e. as a catch-all for all XML content with a (non-grounded) presumption that the transfer semantics are indicated by the namespace of the root element of the document, rather than by using a more specific XML media type. You may even want to mention this as an example of how not to be self-descriptive, and include a reference to the authoritative metadata finding. - in section 4.1, it might be getting too detailed, but perhaps you could mention the relative cost of deploying a new element from each layer, justifying a best practice such as "if you can define your extension as a new media type, prefer that over defining a new URI scheme", etc.. - in 4.3, I'm with Dave on this, RDF shouldn't be considered preferred. At best it could be considered the self-descriptive approach which is furthest along the standardization path. Similarly, for RDFa and GRDDL, I don't think either needs to called out except as an example. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
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