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

I agree with Graham here.  I believe it would be valuable to
be able to indicate whether a feature is a preference, capability,
characteristic, or lable, but I do not believe that could be
done at the time of registration.  In a bilateral exchange,
it will commonly be both a capability and a characteristic.
			regards,
				Ted Hardie



> 
> 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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> Graham Klyne
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