To: uri@bunyip.com
In-Reply-To: M.T.Hamilton@lut.ac.uk's message of Thu, 28 Oct 1993 15:56:23 -0700 <93Oct28.155628pdt.2796@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Subject: Re: options, not nesting?
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Message-Id: <93Oct29.020743pdt.2795@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1993 02:07:34 PDT
Perhaps the details of this weren't meant to be critiqued, but:
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'.
You *do* want
Format: application/postscript
I hope and not
Format: Postscript
Is Size always size-in-bytes?
Is anyone else balking at the apparent redundency of 'URI: URL:ftp://'?
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).
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).