Martin J. Dürst wrote:
Hello Julian,
A tiny bit more of context in your mail would have been helpful. Apparently, you are talking about updates for the types text/html and application/xhtml+xml, which may be sent to this list in the future.
Indeed.
As for your specific concern below, these registrations go through IESG approval, so it would be the IESG who has to figure out whom to believe in the case of a conflict, not IANA. ...
<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288#section-9>: The owner of a media type may pass responsibility to another person or agency by informing the IANA and the ietf-types list; this can be done without discussion or review. So it appears that just changing the change controller does not require IESG approval (HTML5 does more than that; I'm just trying to understand the procedure in cases where *just* the ownership changed). BR, Julian