Hello Aaron, dear RDF Core WG,
On ietf-types(_at_)iana(_dot_)org and some related list, we were just looking
at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlenc-core/#sec-MediaType which containes
some instances of text like this:
Same as ... of application/xml as specified in RFC 3023[XML-MT]
or the most recent specification that supercedes it.
There seemed to be general agreement that a moving target is
not a good idea.
Josef Reagle told us that he got that text from:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rdf-mediatype.html
I wanted to tell you that you may want to fix this.
Regards, Martin.
At 14:47 02/08/19 -0400, Joseph Reagle wrote:
On Thursday 08 August 2002 06:07 pm, Larry Masinter wrote:
> # Optional parameters: charset
> # Same as charset parameter of application/xml as
> # specified in RFC 3023 [XML-MT] or the most recent
> # specification that supersedes it.
>
> I admit I was a little confused on this one, and misread
> what it said. However, I don't understand
> "or the most recent specification that supersedes it",
> though, since a specification may supercede RFC 3023
> but not be appropriate for a reference to a particular
> section.
I'm happy to eliminate that text as I oppose those sort of references in
general. In this case, I was merely following what I could see the rdf
folks doing for a similar type of registration:
http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rdf-mediatype.html