On Sat February 12 2005 15:16, 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.
Ned, you're the expert on the registration procedure, but isn't the current discussion about a non-type whose use was never appropriate rather than a registered type whose use has become inappropriate? I believe that's an important pair of distinctions; we've seen in this case an argument along the lines of "well, text/blah doesn't meet the requirements for a text type but was registered as one anyway" -- I suspect that yet another inappropriate registration would make that sort of argument more likely in the future.