review of media type and URI from draft-levin-mmusic-xml-media-control-10.txt

Even, Roni roni.even at polycom.co.il
Tue Jun 19 10:23:13 CEST 2007


Hi,
Thanks for the review. 
See my response inline

Thanks
Roni Even

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjoern Hoehrmann [mailto:derhoermi at gmx.net]
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:21 PM
> To: Even, Roni
> Cc: ietf-types at alvestrand.no; Colin Perkins
> Subject: Re: review of media type and URI from draft-levin-mmusic-xml-
> media-control-10.txt
> 
> * Even, Roni wrote:
> >  1. Application/media_control+xml media type registration
> 
> It seems this is quite out of sync with the template in RFC 4288, for
> example, "Media Type Name" should be "Type name", "Person to contact
> for further information" should be "Person & email address to contact
> for further information".
> 
> >   Media Type Name:   application
> >   subtype name:   media_control+xml
> 
[RE:] I will update the draft

> Is is really necessary to use a "_" here? I think this would be the
> first type to use an underscore.
[RE:] I prefer to keep it this way since the purpose of the document is an informational RFC that describe current usage. So if we change it will cause interop problems.
> 
> >   See RFC 3023 [4] for a discussion of the charset parameter on XML-
> >   derived types.  Since this type is used exclusively in SIP, the use
> >   of UTF-8 encoding is strongly encouraged.
> 
> This should go into the missing "Restrictions on usage", but why would
> it be "used exclusively in SIP"?
[RE:] I will put the restriction in the right section. The reason for the restriction is to discourage usage of this mode in new implementations. It is explained in the text of the draft.
> 
> >   Encoding considerations:   8-bit text
> 
> This should be one of "7bit", "8bit", "binary", "framed", or, preferably
> a reference to the application/xml encoding considerations in RFC 3023.
[RE:] OK, I will update to 8bit
> 
> >   Intended usage: Limited Use
> 
> This should be uppercased.
[RE:] OK.
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