On Thursday, June 23, 2005, 2:22:48 PM, Scott wrote: SH> Community input needed: SH> During IESG evaluation of draft-hoehrmann-script-types, one of the General SH> Area reviewers provided this comment: SH> "IANA seems to have figured out that the types to be registered are MIME SH> media types but probably should be told how to indicate that the two text/ SH> registrations are obsolete, or at least that it is important to mark these SH> registrations as obsolete in the registry (unless the OBSOLETE intended SH> usage field in the registration suffices, but marking the registry entry SH> will be more effective)." Yes, it would be more effective, but I can live with either marking it or leaving people to read the registration documents. SH> Follow-up discussion within the IESG has prompted this query. The templates SH> in draft-hoehrmann-script-types use the "Intended Usage" field in the SH> templates to note that two of the types are obsolete. The reviewer is SH> suggesting that this status be displayed more obviously at a higher level SH> within the registry. I agree that this information is not obvious when looking at the registry, and is useful. SH> This isn't exactly an issue for the document being reviewed, but it might be SH> an issue for the structure of the registry. Should the registry structure SH> be changed to display the status of obsolete (or any other) types more SH> prominently? If so, we might need a new document or a revision to SH> draft-freed-media-type-reg to describe whatever changes are needed. It could be as simple as putting a class attribute in the HTML and styling common, limited and obsolete in different colors. -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group W3C Graphics Activity Lead