
Dear Scalable Vector Graphics Working Group, http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-SVG12-20041027/mimereg.html attempts to register the "image/svg+xml" MIME Type but the registration lacks the charset parameter as defined in RFC 3023. This defeats the purpose of the +xml convention which attempts to provide a means for generic XML processing. Generic XML tools such as Validators, Editors, XSLT and XQuery processors, and full-text XML search engines would need to maintain special knowledge to ignore the charset parameter for image/svg+xml documents which is expensive and unlikely to happen. In fact, a number of deployed tools already don't do that, for example the W3C Markup Validator would need to be updated with special code for image/svg+xml in order to comply with the registration. Thus, please change the registration to be consistent with application/ xml as defined in RFC 3023. regards.