--On Friday, 07 September, 2007 17:27 -0400 Nick Bogaty <nbogaty@idpf.org> wrote:
... 2. The currently adopted OCF standard uses a MIME type of "application/epub+zip". It would be difficult to change that as it has already gone through a standard adoption process and is used in commercially released products. ...
It is up to the IESG as to what to do about this. While I personally generally prefer registration of something that has already been deployed to non-registration and the risk of confusion, many of us would consider establishing a precedent for either arbitrary "+foo" form, and "+zip" in particular, to be a very bad idea. I comments from others on this list would be welcome. For future reference for IDPF and others, it would have been much better to have consulted this list about choices of names, etc., before this name was deployed. The "+xml" form, including that used in "oebps-package+xml", is well-established and has fairly specific semantics (to which oebps-package+xml appears to conform). There is no such arrangement for "+zip" or, for some very specific reasons, any other compression scheme. regards, john