Scripting Media Types

[Bruce Lilly]

On Sat February 12 2005 22:09, ned.freed at mrochek.com wrote:

> > > The alternative, however, is to say nothing.
> 
> > I'm not convinced that that's the only alternative.
> 
> I was talking about what to do with the text/* types we're discussing. And its
> a binary choice: Either we register them or we don't.

Registration is a binary choice, but that does not preclude
mentioning inappropriate use of unregistered type names in
an RFC which also registers appropriate types.

> Well, all I can say is that I disagree. I don't think a registration of the
> right thing is nearly as powerful as registering the right and warning against
> the wrong.

I have no qualms about either "registering the right" or
"warning against the wrong". Registering the wrong is
another matter.