MPEG asks for MIME review for the MPEG21 file format

Graham Klyne GK at ninebynine.org
Fri May 18 13:04:08 CEST 2007


For the purpose of evaluating consensus... I agree with this.

(My earlier comment being based on a misunderstanding of the MPEG21 format
options being covered.)

#g
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Larry Masinter wrote:
> I believe the +xml suffix should be reserved for media types whose content
> can be
> parsed without any preprocessing by a generic XML parser. A reply
> from David Singer indicated that the proposed MPEG 21file format is "binary
> and contains within it either XML text or BiM-encoded XML (like a ZIP
> archive
> with an XML document as the main document.)"
> 
> In that case, the use of +xml would (IMO) be inappropriate.

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