Content features and feature type
Ted Hardie <[email protected]>
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As usual, many thanks to Graham for his work on the recent set of drafts related to MIME content types. I have a very small number of comments on the two drafts, so I'm going to combine them into a single message. In -feature-type-, which registers a feature named "type" which corresponds to MIME Content-type, I suggest moving the definition of media feature to the top of 1.1, just so that the grounding work is laid for the other terms. This actual applies to -content-features- as well. In -feature-type-, section 3. I'm not sure whether the should in "The media type should be given without any parameter value" is a SHOULD or is not normative. I believe that it would be okay for it to be normative at the SHOULD level. If that is the consensus of the group, I would change the note to read NOTE: Implementors should keep in the feature set matching in [1] when deciding whether to include parameters in "type" values. Each string will be considered a distinct value, and types with parameters will not match those without parameters. The NOTE in -feature-type- section 4.3 seems to be formatted incorrectly. In -content-features-, I believe the first bullet in section 2. is missing a word, probably "information", after the "detailed media feature" phrase. In -content-features- section 3.1.1., the text states that the Content features header "may suggest a content type that is different than that given by the MIME 'Content-type:' header". I'm not certain what is meant by "suggest" here, but I really don't see why we would allow that. What's the rationale here? If we are going to treat multipart/* MIME types, I believe we must have examples for both multipart/alternative (which I suspect is a big potential user) and multipart/related. If anyone can help Graham come up with appropriate examples for those, it would be greatly appreciated. regards, Ted Hardie [email protected]