"Let the market decide" doesn't work for "draft standard"
"Larry Masinter" <[email protected]>
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Using one MIME type or another is a feature. The Draft Standard should only have options that there are qualified multiple independent interoperable implementations. So if there's an option to use image/tiff-fx with profile S and F, there should be two independent writers and two independent readers that use this option, and the implementations need to meet the requirements of RFC 2026. If you are doing a "Proposed Standard" you can speculate on what you think people might want to implement at some time in the future, but to advanced to Draft Standard, there should actually be implementations. It isn't adequate to just imagine that someone could possibly build an implementation in the future, there should be people who are willing to take the time to actually create implementations and demonstrate their interoperability.