RE: IANA considerations for PIDF

On 16 April 2002 11:30, Graham Klyne wrote:
> Second:  trawling through the PIDF spec to draft the IANA 
> considerations, I
> notice that a <value> attribute 'type=' has been introduced, which
appears 
> to require a new registry to be created.  I've not been following the 
> debates too closely, so I don't know why this was introduced.
> 
> Do we really need this?  Creating a new IANA registry is not to be
> undertaken lightly, I think.
> 
> The description of <value> is rather vague about the exact nature of 
> the
> type= attribute.  It also seems to me that this approach is ignoring
the 
> more natural extensibility mechanisms offered by XML.

Yes, we have a newer proposal that avoids this (see the recent messages
to the list, there haven't been too many ;^>). I've been a bit tied up
this week but I hope to write up the text and post it to the list in the
next day or so.

Regards,

Adrian.




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