Re: Draft text: The Core Feature Set (Sections 1 - 4)
Koen Holtman (koen@win.tue.nl)
Sun, 6 Oct 1996 01:12:20 +0200 (MET DST)
Larry Masinter:
>
>Why not have 'feature' registration work the same way as 'media type'
>registration in IANA, rather than inventing another mechanism?
??? We are already planning to do this. Some time ago, we were
discussing it with you in private e-mail. I hope that we will be able
to finish a feature registration draft within a week.
We have been working on the core feature set first; it is hard to
define a good feature registration form if you don't have some
specific features to try as test-cases.
>See, for example,
> draft-ietf-822ext-mime-reg-04.txt
Yes, this is the draft we are using as a basis.
[...]
>Some of the features listed are media type specific (html tables);
>others are independent of media type and cut across those boundaries
>(color, size). Shouldn't those be sorted out?
What do you mean by sorting them out? The use of specific naming
conventions which indicate scope?
I don't know yet if we need something like a predefined set of feature
prefixes. MIME types have such a prefix set and USENET newsgroups
have such a prefix set, so maybe feature tags also need one. However,
at this point I have no idea what would have to be in the prefix set
for feature tags.
>Regards,
>
>Larry
Koen.