@dret @distobj Profiles in Accept: do what media types are for and they lack a central authority markbaker.ca/blog/2008/02/me… , hence cause coupling
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@algermissen i do agree that media type centralization is a good thing; but should media type specialization be centralized?
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@dret I'd say, media type specification is an anti pattern. It only moves the problem elsewhere, it does not solve it
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@algermissen domain models for data and interaction need to live somewhere, and media types are a good place for them to live in.
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@dret @algermissen After all these years, I'm still undecided whether custom media types are worth the cost
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@stilkov @dret Hmm, what cost exactly do you refer to with regard to custom media types.
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@algermissen @dret Cost of creating, describing, explaining, maintaining, evolving them, losing an existing ecosystem that works with them

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@stilkov @dret Re: cost: Yeah, but *some* stuff you just have to design. I prefer doing that where the style 'wants me to'.
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@stilkov @dret Re ecosystem:One can reuse syntax and parsers by refining the processing model + semantics and give it a new media type name
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@stilkov @algermissen @dret anyone care to define "custom" when applied to media types?
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