RE: Fwd: Last Call: XML Media Types to Proposed Standard

In the IETF-XML-MIME ML, Larry Masinter made proposed to slightly
revise the latest draft (draft-murata-xml-07.txt).  Dave Peterson 
agreed.

>    For backward compatibility, application/xml and text/xml MAY, 
>    but SHOULD NOT, also be used for "external parsed entities", 
>    "external DTD subsets", and "external parameter entities".
> 
> I don't think "MAY but SHOULD NOT" is a valid state in RFC 2119
> terminology, or called for. How about:
> 
>   application/xml and text/xml MUST NOT be used for "external parsed
>   entities", "external DTD subsets", and "external parameter entities".
>   Note that RFC 2376 (obsoleted) allowed this usage, although
>   in practice it is likely to be rare.

I spoke with my co-authors: Dan Kohn and Simon St. Laurent.  We 
have agreed to accept the proposed change.


Sincerely yours,

IBM Tokyo Research Lab &
International University of Japan, Research Institute

MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given)