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Re: Finishing the XML-tagging discussion

2000-03-20 10:24:26
At 09:07 AM 3/19/00 -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote:
>The other problem I have with Content-Feature is that it isn't clear to me
>- based on my RFC dredgings, which may not be complete - whether or not
>there is any kind of registration process or even official status for
>Content-Feature.

FYI:  RFC 2506;  also RFC 2533.

(Content-feature is currently an I-D proposal that employs this framework
to label MIME content.)

And to try and dispel some misunderstandings:  I have suggested use of the
CONNEG framework for _content negotiation_.  To me, the use of "-xml" as an
aid to detecting generic XML seems a reasonable and useful idea;  I just
think that using a naming convention as a basis for content negotiation
would be pushing it too far.

I agree that the suffix isn't appropriate for negotiation; this should
be handled by some sort of feature tag.

                                Ned