Re: ACTION-472: New Mime-web-info draft

Nathan wrote:
> 
> Aye, and I guess classing some URIs as "media types" based on the 
> first x chars of the lexical form of the URI would not be a good idea 
> (Opacity and all).
> 

It's a fine debate to have on rest-discuss, where we can talk about the
various philosophies of how self-descriptive messaging might function,
without limiting ourselves to the constraints imposed by HTTP.  The
HTTP WG would be the right forum to suggest, in the absence of a
Content-Type header, falling back to some other header which allows
URIs as tokens -- without having anything to do with media types.  Here,
though, we should treat decisions like the registry being targeted at
humans or not being URI-extensible (or existing at all), as having
already been made, IMO.

-Eric

Received on Monday, 31 January 2011 20:54:40 UTC