[tei-council] [TEI-L] SV: TEI MIME type (fwd)

David Sewell dsewell at virginia.edu
Tue Dec 8 13:09:24 EST 2009


I have asked Sigfrid Lundberg whether he can help us by suggesting how
to complete the IANA application fields, and will report back to Council
when I hear from him.

David

On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Laurent Romary wrote:

> Thanks for the clarification James. We thus proceed with this.
> Cheers (from Oxford ;-))
> Laurent
>
> Le 8 déc. 09 à 16:40, James Cummings a écrit :
>
> > David Sewell wrote:
> > > On Tue, 8 Dec 2009, Laurent Romary wrote:
> > >
> > > > I was somehow waiting for some kind of a clear voicing. But it seems
> > > > there is
> > > > a silent concensus and I would give you my green light to pursue on this
> > > > with
> > > > SIgfrid in the name of the council.
> > >
> > > James, you did voice some objections--did you intend them to be strong
> > > enough to halt the process, or no?
> >
> >
> > I guess my devil's advocate objections could be summarised as:
> >
> > 1) I've not been convinced that it is really useful to us either
> > on a marketing perspective or on an application-building
> > perspective, but I'm still willing to be convinced (the examples
> > so far haven't done it).  What would an application developer use
> > it for that there aren't better methods in existence already?
> > (And is then a MIME type really the answer?)
> > 2) Theoretically XML is only the current vocabulary of what the
> > TEI uses...but that is only pendantry
> > 3) If I say my document is application/tei+xml I haven't
> > communicated much information (is it P4, P5, P72?)
> > 4) It seems to claim a document is 'TEI' but says nothing about
> > Conformance/Conformable/Non-Conformant or which schema.
> > 5) If the TEI does this, then its main use (it seems to me) is in
> > HTTP Accept headers, which can take arbitrary parameters, as such
> > it might be useful to suggest recommended naming formats/values
> > for those parameters.
> >
> > I don't think any of those are a deal-breaker by themselves, just
> > things I think the Council should be aware of in its decision.
> >
> > -James
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