AW: media type review requested for application/auth-policy+xml

Tschofenig, Hannes hannes.tschofenig at siemens.com
Thu Apr 13 10:18:43 CEST 2006


Hi Mark, 
 
thanks for your comments. 

> Some comments;
> 
> - I'd suggest removing the UTF-8 default, because in the absence of a
> charset parameter the XML document itself would be self-descriptive
> about its encoding.  I'd recommend simply punting to application/xml's
> definition.
Fine for me. 

> 
> - security section should also reference sec 10 of RFC 3023.

Why do you think so? 
I read through Section 10 of RFC 3023 and I don't think that the aspects
there are applicable for our usage environment. 

> 
> - I'd recommend picking a file extension specific to this media type,
> as many Web servers come pre-configured to serve .xml files as
> application/xml, or even an RSS media type.
I don't care about the file extension. Can you 
suggest something reasonable? 

Ciao
Hannes

> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mark.
> --
> Mark Baker.  Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA.       http://www.markbaker.ca
> 


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