I asked the IESG to postpone the publication of the application/xhtml-voice+xml media type as an informational RFC. The registration is not correct. It should be application/xhtml+voice+xml. The application/xhtml+voice+xml media type was the original submission. There is an issue with the original submission: One of the reviewers pointed out that "a certain class of error could be avoided by renaming this application/xhtml-plus-voice+xml... I don't know of any other "+xml" [see RFC3023] media types that have a "+" in the name... a poorly-constructed regexp looking for +xml along the lines of /\+(.*)$/ would miss this one." I believe this argument is not strong enough to prevent approval of the application/xhtml+voice+xml media type: 1. In particular there is the work in the W3C Compound Document Format (CDF) working group. They are looking at defining a single media type that will handle the many possible document format combinations of XHTML, SVG, Voice, SMIL, XForms, etc. This media type may include multiple "+" put in a profile attribute. 2. The argument for having "+" in the subtype is unconvincing, given that the simplest method to determine if something is XML is also the safest, that is, if the last four characters are "+xml" or "/xml" then the document is XML, otherwise it is not. If that has to be done with regexps, instead of just examining the last four bytes, that would be /[/+]xml$/. If type and subtype were split already it would be /\+?xml$/ for the subtype. Regards, Gerald McCobb IBM 8051 Congress Avenue Boca Raton, FL 33487 Tel. # 561-862-2109 T/L 975-2109 "Scott Hollenbeck" <sah@428cobrajet.net> 07/12/2005 06:09 PM To: <ietf-types@alvestrand.no> cc: <iana@iana.org>, Gerald McCobb/Boca Raton/IBM@IBMUS Subject: RE: application/xhtml-voice+xml vs. application/xhtml-vocie+xml That registration was just added. The author has been asked to review it and confirm correctness. He hasn't replied yet. I've cc'd him here to let him know about the issue. -Scott-
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Lilly [mailto:blilly@erols.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 4:08 PM To: ietf-types@alvestrand.no Cc: iana@iana.org Subject: application/xhtml-voice+xml vs. application/xhtml-vocie+xml
draft-mccobb-xplusv-media-type-04 provides a registration template for type application/xhtml-voice+xml. The IANA registry now has an entry for application/xhtml-vocie+xml (i and c transposed in voice).
Can this be fixed, please. Hopefully, nobody else has noticed the ...vocie... type and it can be safely elided...