If what I am reading is correct it sounds like the real design mistake here was putting semantics into content types in the first place.
A code point registration should be just that, registration of a unique identifier to prevent confusion. Once people start adding semantics into the identifier the choice of name starts to have consequences. At one point there were people arguing that it should be application/html. They were wrong and they were (rightly) ignored. But the arguments made then demonstrated that the taxonomic scheme for the semantics was bogus. > -----Original Message----- > From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 14, 2006 9:48 AM > To: Paul E. Jones > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Eliot Lear'; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: RFC 4612 - historic status > > Paul E. Jones wrote: > > Brian, > > > > The problem with using "image" is that it would mean that a gateway > > would have to do one of: > > 1) Close the audio session and open an image session > > 2) Open a second "image" session during mid-call > > 3) Open both an audio session and image session at the outset > The real underlying problem was that the idea of an "audio > session" was a design mistake. > > Practice has shown that sessions consist of multiple media. > > Unfortunately the IETF hasn't fixed that design mistake, so > the ITU has kluged around it with things like "audio/t34". > > My opinion. And yes, the discussion of how to recover from > that mistake belongs in the RAI area. > > Harald > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > > _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
