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Re: Draft registration for application/xenc+xml

2002-05-24 11:32:15

Joseph,

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:13:59PM -0400, Joseph Reagle wrote:
Hi Mark, the XML Encryption syntax has the capacity to represent this 
information. (And it is OPTIONAL, so if we have it in both places, it would 
be odd to have it be required in the mediatype.) If you encrypt a PNG, the 
resulting instance might look like:

Sorry, I forgot about 'MimeType'.  That changes things.  I agree that
the parameter is redundant, and therefore I'd recommend against it.

I've just had a quick look at the spec, but I need to spend more time
thinking about MimeType & Type, to make sure that it handles this
properly.  For example, I would think that a recommendation to not
guess the value of MimeType, but to reuse the media type (if known)
of the content, would be a good idea.

More later, if I find anything requiring comment.  Thanks.

MB
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