Re: draft-freed-mime-p4-00.txt

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 12:54, Dan Kohn wrote:
> This looks very good.  It still might be useful to provide a little more
> of the information from
> <http://www.w3.org/2002/06/registering-mediatype> to give hints to other
> standards bodies about the ordering of their draft, to publishing an
> I-D, to last calls, to their publication, to informational RFC
> publication.  I believe this caused some confusion with the W3C until it
> was worked out, and informatively referencing the W3C process might even
> be useful.

Please note that that document provides guidance for registration in the 
present (interim) context of RFC2048 -- not necessarily the policy when 
draft-freed-mime-p4-00.txt would be operational. For instance, it's not 
clear to me that we would still have to generate even "stub" ietf-drafts 
once it is operational. I nope that sending emails to the various lists 
with a reference to the W3C document will be sufficient.

> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-freed-mime-p4-00.txt

I just noted and read this and had a few small comments:

   3.2.8 Publication Requirements
   Other than IETF registrations in the standards tree, the registration
   of a data type does not imply endorsement, approval, or
   recommendation by the IANA or the IETF or even certification that the
   specification is adequate. 

jmr: Could this be simplified by saying that, "presense in the standards 
tree does not necessary imply endorsement by IANA or IETF." One should not 
look at the tree for endorsement at all, but, at the specification's 
level/maturity (draft, proposed draft, standard, Recommendation, etc.) 
within their organization.

   3.2.8 ... The stanards 
   3.3.3 ... whateveer

   4.1.3 Publication Requirements
   All access types MUST be described by an RFC.  

To be clear, IETF is reserving transfer encodings and access types to its 
own process and are not forseen to be developed by other standards 
organizations? (I don't forsee it being otherwise, just wanted to be sure.)