As per the instructions for registering media types based on XML which are outside of the five media types specified in rfc3023, and section 2.3.1 of rfc 2048. We (IPTC) are submitting the following potential media type registration for preliminary community review before submission to IANA. The IPTC ( http://www.iptc.org/ ), is a consortium of the world's major news agencies and news industry vendors. It develops and maintains technical standards for improved news exchange that are used by virtually every major news organization in the world. Currently about 65 companies and organisations from the news industry are members of the IPTC. Some of the standards currently maintained by IPTC: NewsML 1 http://www.newsml.org/ NITF http://www.nitf.org/ SportsML http://www.sportsml.org/ IIM http://www.iptc.org/IIM/ IPTC 7901 (ANPA) http://www.iptc.org/IPTC7901/ The IPTC has decided to develop new family of news exchange standards - the G2-Standards - for conveying different types of content. They will be successors to the current versions of NewsML 1.x, SportsML 1.x. Further to that a standard for exchanging event information - EventsML - is also be developed at this stage. After an "Experimental Phase 1" (EP#1) in winter 2005/2006, another EP#2 in summer 2006 and a final Release Candidate (RC) review in early 2007 the structures of the News Architecture 1.0 were approved by the IPTC on 30 May 2007. This includes the data model and all properties but excludes the Processing Model. You may download the NAR 1.0 package, a ZIP file ( http://www.iptc.org/std/NAR/NAR_1.0.zip ) containing these individual documents and also find more information about the G2 family of news exchange standards on the IPTC website at: http://www.iptc.org/NAR/ What we are looking to do is to formally register media types based on XML for this new family of news exchange standards in the vendor tree. Specifically, with this request, we are seeking to register the following media type: application/vnd.iptc.g2.packageitem+xml A version of the form we wish to submit follows. If this submission requires additional information for community review and IANA approval, please let us know. ---------- the form ---------- Media Type Name: application Subtype name: vnd.iptc.g2.packageitem+xml Required parameters: none Optional parameters: Identical to those of "application/xml" as described in rfc3023, section 3.2 Encoding considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as described in rfc3023, section 3.2 Security considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as described in rfc3023, section 10 Interoperability considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as described in rfc3023, section 3.1 Published specification: NAR_1.0-spec-ModelCore_16.pdf http://www.iptc.org/std/NAR/1.0/specification/NAR_1.0-spec-ModelCore_16.pdf NAR_1.0-spec-ModelPowerExt_16.pdf http://www.iptc.org/std/NAR/1.0/specification/NAR_1.0-spec-ModelPowerExt_16.... Applications which use this media type: none Additional information: Magic number(s): none File extension(s): xml Macintosh File Type Code(s): Identical to those of "application/xml" as described in rfc3023, "TEXT" Object Identifier(s) or OID(s): It must be possible to positively identify an Item as it moves through the news workflow, and is transferred from place to place and from system to system. An Item therefore gets a globally unique identifier (guid), which is a persistent, universally unique identifier, and a version which is incremented when the content of the Item is updated. The first version is numbered 1: if the version is not explicitly set, this value must be assumed by the recipient of the Item. The guid is required to be in the form of a IRI. Any IRI capable of acting as a globally unique identifier is accepted; the IPTC provides a standard for this purpose in the form of an IETF RFC [RFC-3085]. @@ At the time of this writing the RFC 3085, initially defined in the scope of NewsML1, is still to be complemented by a new RFC in which globally unique identifier and version are separate properties. Intended usage: A Package Item (packageItem) facilitates the packaging of all kinds of items, from really simple constructs to the highly hierarchical structures created by some news providers. Examples of Package Items are a collection of pictures, the "top ten" list of news items, an unordered set of news items relative to the same event, the representation of a section of a newspaper page. Other Information/General Comment: none Person to contact for further information: Name: Michael Steidl E-mail: mdirector@iptc.org Author/Change controller: Name: Michael Steidl E-mail: mdirector@iptc.org