Re: Comments on draft-ietf-msgtrk-mtqp-03.txt

Eric Allman <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Aug 2001 05:35:49 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.msgtrk
Message-ID <[email protected]>
: From:  [email protected]
: > The way MIME content-types are done, vendor company prefixes are
: > registered:
: 
: >    Registrations in the vendor tree will be distinguished by the leading
: >    facet "vnd.".  That may be followed, at the discretion of the
: >    registration, by either a media type name from a well-known producer
: >    (e.g., "vnd.mudpie") or by an IANA-approved designation of the
: >    producer's name which is then followed by a media type or product
: >    designation (e.g., vnd.bigcompany.funnypictures).
: 
: Note, however, that this registers vnd.bigcompany.funnypictures, not
: vnd.bigcompany or bigcompany. So it isn't strictly correct to say that company
: prefixes are registered.

Ned, I read this differently -- "IANA-approved designation" modifies
"producer's name" -- which is "then followed" by a non-IANA-approved
media type or product designation.  Am I totally off?

eric