On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org> wrote: > > http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect#embedded > I read this document, which specifies TAG's findings on "Authoritative Metadata". As a personal opinion, I agree to these findings. Lot of web implementation already exists, which relies on these concepts (for e.g., Content-Type header field within HTTP and MIME). Its a good web architectural principle, to have a metadata that introduces the representation. This makes the web sender and receiver systems more efficient wrt processing data that is exchanged. If inferring the sender's functional intent only from the data itself, was the only option available that would make data processing less efficient (in the worst case, this would require reading the whole data stream to infer the functionality represented by the content). Where this metadata should be kept (for e.g as external reference, encapsulating or embedded) are valid design choices wrt this question. The table here, http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/mime-respect#what shows examples how different kinds of data systems, would have authoritative metadata placed where (I've no issues agreeing to these findings). Having said all this, I'll find it still interesting to have TAG revisit this topic and issuing any changes in this design area. -- Regards, Mukul Gandhi
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