Review for media types: application/ibe-pp-data, application/ibe-key-request+xml, and application/ibe-pkg-reply+xml

Luther Martin martin at voltage.com
Thu Oct 2 23:22:47 CEST 2008


Comments in-line.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf-types-bounces at alvestrand.no [mailto:ietf-types-
> bounces at alvestrand.no] On Behalf Of Mark Baker
> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 12:31 PM
> To: Turner, Sean P.
> Cc: ietf-types at iana.org
> Subject: Re: Review for media types: application/ibe-pp-data,
> application/ibe-key-request+xml, and application/ibe-pkg-reply+xml
>
> The section references in 8.1 are incorrect.  They should be 4.3, 5.4,
> and 5.7 respectively.

That's easy to fix.

>
> - the additional information section is for magic numbers and file
> extensions.  Please refer to the registration template in RFC 4288.

Also easy to fix.

> - parameters, both optional and mandatory, aren't explicitly named (at
> least in an obvious way) and only described.
>

Also easy to fix.

> - as an observation, the mandatory parameters for
> application/ibe-key-request+xml and application/ibe-pkg-reply+xml both
> seem to be message control data rather than representation metadata,
> so this seems a misuse of the media type framework.  Is it too late to
> fix this?

This is discussed in a separate e-mail.


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