From: Martin Hamilton <M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <199310291430.OAA15113@lust.lut.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: options, not nesting?
To: masinter@parc.xerox.com (Larry Masinter)
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 14:30:13 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <93Oct29.020743pdt.2795@golden.parc.xerox.com> from "Larry Masinter" at Oct 29, 93 02:07:34 am
Larry said:
/ Perhaps the details of this weren't meant to be critiqued, but:
FWIW, got them straight out of draft-ietf-iafa-publishing-00.txt,
which I believe is the current version.
/ The 'Pages: 5' field might be different for different representations.
/ (E.g., the same paper, in postscript, formatted for US Letter and A4
/ size paper). And some formats might not have any 'pages'.
Media?! (A5, A4, A3, US Letter...)
/ You *do* want
/
/ Format: application/postscript
/
/ I hope and not
/
/ Format: Postscript
How about just borrowing the MIME headers? This is about as close
as we currently come to a standardised set of common elements :-)
/ Is anyone else balking at the apparent redundency of 'URI: URL:ftp://'?
Ok, it seems like a moot point if we're saying the rest of the
template is up for grabs, but it might be nice to "delegate"
responsibility for these attributes - If we keep URI as a
"reserved word" we can play around with UR* in there without
interfering with each other, no?
/ One question for these attributes is which of them are strings and
/ which are identifiers that should be assigned by the IANA. Format: and
/ Language: are identifiers (represented by a strings, but you should
/ use X-nnnn if you are using an identifier which isn't registered).
I think it'll be a while before the templates stablise. Is
it really necessary to try and sort this out first?
/ On the other hand, Author-Name is a string.
/
/ Will we standardize on a format for Author-Name? Last name first,
/ first name, initial? (I think not, but just to point out that it IS an
/ issue).
S=
I=
G=
:-)
This is really an IAFA thing though, isn't it? Apologies if it's
already been done to death over there...
Martin