Message-Id: <m0mp5Tc-00009TC@garnet.msen.com> To: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com> Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch Subject: Re: proposed registration of type 'text/html' for MIME In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 10 Nov 92 17:38:19. <9211102338.AA02403@pixel.convex.com> Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 18:58:17 EST From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com> Thanks for the message, Dan. A few points. I am not comfortable referencing documents (in an IETF message) that are available only via the system in which I'm trying to document. I.e. for the purpose of conveying to the IETF what all we're up to it would be best to have files in the anonymous FTP area and rendered in ASCII. Calling HTML an "SGML application" is not a bad long term plan. I fear there's some risk in ease of implementation from Content-type: text/sgml; dtd="(string that identifies html.dtd)" compared to Content-type: text/html and as such I'd prefer to not haul in all of the SGML standard in the description of the system, not right up front at least. Better to spec something that you can deliver and play with rather than stretch things out to their limits. Dan, if http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/HTML.dtd is in fact something that should get a "public text identifier" (some kind of ISBN number?) then we should do it. That would be a very useful document to reference in the comments section. Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB