RE: Pursuing question of mime types in W3C specifications and nextactions

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>>Why would the process be any different for the W3C than for anybody
>>else? It is perfectly possible to have a MIME registration RFC that
>>references a non-IETF document for the actual syntax of the format.
>>For example, see RFC-3240.
>
>Some W3C groups are trying to follow a finding[1] of the W3C's Technical
>Architecture Group[2], to include the media type registration form
>(for an IETF tree media type) within their specifications[3].

I'm not asking why the W3C would want it.  Why would *the IETF* create a different process for W3C documents? Any time you've got multiple processes to do the same thing, you've got a risk of abuse.

John Stracke
francis@incentivesystems.com
Incentive Systems, Inc.
http://www.incentivesystems.com
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