Re: draft-reagle-xenc-mediatype-01.txt

On Thursday 08 August 2002 06:07 pm, Larry Masinter wrote:
> # Optional parameters: charset
> #  Same as charset parameter of application/xml as
> #  specified in RFC 3023 [XML-MT] or the most recent
> #  specification that supersedes it.
>
> I admit I was a little confused on this one, and misread
> what it said. However, I don't understand
> "or the most recent specification that supersedes it",
> though, since a specification may supercede RFC 3023
> but not be appropriate for a reference to a particular
> section. 

I'm happy to eliminate that text as I oppose those sort of references in 
general. In this case, I was merely following what I could see the rdf 
folks doing for a similar type of registration:
  http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/rdf-mediatype.html