My 2p (public comment) about this registration request: Le 3 sept. 2010 à 00:44, Steven Lees a écrit :
Type name: application Subtype name: calendar+xml [...] Interoperability considerations: This media type provides an alternative syntax to iCalendar data based on XML. Published specification: This specification. (http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-daboo-et-al-icalendar-in-xml-06.txt)
I personnally would welcome that my iCal uses an XML instead of the fairly hard to parse ics format for which I found no reasonable parser yet so please don't stop it!
File extension(s): XML data should use "xml" as the file extension. Macintosh file type code(s): None specified.
I believe and specific file extension would be useful, for email, web-based, file-based content negotiation; .xml is too generic. (what about .icx? .xcs? .xic?) E.g. a USB stick containing such a file shouldn't let people that double click on it get proposed to XML-edit or Mozilla-view this file, they should propose to open it in a calendar application! One more suggestion: would negotiation in clipboards also make sense? (to me yes) Then I'd suggest to follow the MathML and SVG examples. paul