Re: Feedback on Internet Media Types and the Web

I don't know what kind of" groundwork" you want laid or why it would make sense. +xml got defined, for better or worse, without prior" groundwork".  Defining policies in general doesn't seem hefpful. What do you think using+ son in a mime type SHOULD mean, and can you get anyone to agree with you?

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-----Original message-----
From: "Eric J. Bowman" <eric@bisonsystems.net>
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@adobe.com>
Cc: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
Sent: Tue, Feb 8, 2011 03:24:32 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: Feedback on Internet Media Types and the Web

Larry Masinter wrote:
>
> For "+json" to be useful for anything, it has to mean something that
> everyone agrees to it meaning... and the only way we have of getting
> that agreement is to publish a document and put it through a
> consensus process (notwithstanding those who prefer the" willful
> violation" path).
>

Sure.  But first, the groundwork for such an effort must be laid, such
that it applies to +anything.  I'm talking about defining extensions in
the registry, not +json per se.

What's the counter-argument here, in favor of leaving extensions
undefined?

-Eric