Re: comments on draft-hoffman-char-lang-media

Graham Klyne <[email protected]> Wed, 26 Apr 2000 09:46:25 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.medfree
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 02:49 PM 4/25/00 -0700, Larry Masinter wrote:
>I think that we might want to consider revising the feature registration
>BCP to encourage registrations to be clearer about whether a feature
>represents a preference, capability, characteristic, and whether the
>feature requires explicit labelling as such.

Does this not presume that the distinction is wholely implied by the 
feature tag?

Use of colour, for example, might be a capability or a preference depending 
on the circumstances of its use.

This suggests to me that the distinction you draw should sometimes not be 
bound to the feature tag.

#g

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