> In the IETF-XML-MIME ML, Larry Masinter made proposed to slightly
> revise the latest draft (draft-murata-xml-07.txt). Dave Peterson
> agreed.
> > For backward compatibility, application/xml and text/xml MAY,
> > but SHOULD NOT, also be used for "external parsed entities",
> > "external DTD subsets", and "external parameter entities".
> > I don't think "MAY but SHOULD NOT" is a valid state in RFC 2119
> > terminology, or called for. How about:
> > application/xml and text/xml MUST NOT be used for "external parsed
> > entities", "external DTD subsets", and "external parameter entities".
> > Note that RFC 2376 (obsoleted) allowed this usage, although
> > in practice it is likely to be rare.
> I spoke with my co-authors: Dan Kohn and Simon St. Laurent. We
> have agreed to accept the proposed change.
Sounds fine to me. Please submit an updated version of the draft.
Unfortunately, given that this is a change to requirements language I think
we'll have to restart the last call, so the sooner the better on this.
Ned
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