* ned.freed@mrochek.com wrote:
There is no defined process for deprecation of a media type. The closest thing we have is marking the type as being obsolete, and the media types registration procedure specifically calls for this to be done "when use of the type is no longer appropriate". This IMO matches the present case exactly.
Well, my concern is that it would be misleading to suggest people use application/ecmascript instead of text/ecmascript if the overwhelming majority can't do that at the moment, so my preferred approach is to register these types now as COMMON (or LIMITED USE) and update the registration later to consider them OBSOLETE when support for the alternate types is more widespread. But I guess pointing out in the document that marking those types as obsolete does not mean there is much wrong if these types are used/implemented for reasons of backwards-compatibility would avoid confusion. Bruce, would registering these types as OBSOLETE be acceptable to you? -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/