The Expert Reviewer for mime type registrations is Ned Freed, so he has the last say. My personal opinion is that either one or three types should be fine, and that probably the WG has the most expertise to decide this, but that you should really consider what others on this list (in particular Mark) said. Regards, Martin. On 2009/04/09 0:29, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
Aside of the question of the "necessity" of specific media-types, the most important question is the "eligibility" of such a request:
Many in our group are convinced that a request for three media-types would be rejected and this only after the last-call draft this summer.
Can members on this list answer the question of the eligibility ?
paul
Le 06-avr.-09 à 11:08, Paul Libbrecht a écrit :
Martin J. Dürst also wrote:
I guess you want multiple clipboard types because you want to give the receiving application a chance to use either of the two representations. For media types, that would correspond to the situation that you want your user agent to tell you which representation it prefers, and the server to send one or the other depending on the request from the user agent.
I think this is the very best explanation I can see for the case of content-negotiation for http: give a chance to the client to indicate its preference and to the server to actually be able to do the effort of the conversion better than "just doing it generic".
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