- From: Eric J. Bowman <eric@bisonsystems.net>
- Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:19:45 -0700
- To: Bob Ferris <zazi@elbklang.net>
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
Bob Ferris wrote: > > Furthermore, it nicely aligns then with the good feature of > decentralization that the Web gave us. > Web-based decentralization is desirable for RDF ontologies, sure. But it is not desirable for media types, which are supposed to support controlled evolution of generic, re-usable types -- instead of the anarchical evolution of anything goes. There's an extreme limit to the number of media types that are widely understood and implemented, so what is the technical rationale for decentralized extensibility of media types? There is a problem of media type proliferation, for which the solution is not to enable even wider proliferation of media types. -Eric
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