MIME registration for application/gdiff
I'm trying to register a MIME type officially for application/gdiff. This type was defined in a W3C NOTE several years ago: <http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-gdiff-19970901> That Note defines the MIME type but apparently the authors never registered the MIME type with IANA. Now we'd like to use gdiff in applications where we'd be using the MIME type so having it officially registered would be nice. For example in: <http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-dusseault-http-patch-05.txt> I submitted the registration through the IANA web form six weeks ago but haven't gotten a response other than the automated form submission response. Is this smoothly underway or is there anything else I need to or can optionally do to help this registration out? Is there anywhere to see the status of requests? Thanks, Lisa Dusseault PS I had to subscribe to this list to get my posting accepted -- I first sent this message in August but it disappeared into a black hole. Lisa
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
I'm trying to register a MIME type officially for application/gdiff. This type was defined in a W3C NOTE several years ago:
Registering types in the IETF trees nominally involves writing some RFC document. (Tech notes from W3 have no validity for the IETF.) Given that W3 has not bothered to do this themselves, I'd recommend that you file a small, informational RFC for this, so that the MIME type can eventually be added. Linus Walleij
On Friday, September 24, 2004, 9:41:52 AM, Linus wrote: LW> On Fri, 10 Sep 2004, Lisa Dusseault wrote:
I'm trying to register a MIME type officially for application/gdiff. This type was defined in a W3C NOTE several years ago:
LW> Registering types in the IETF trees nominally involves writing some RFC LW> document. (Tech notes from W3 have no validity for the IETF.) Or, to clarify: Registering types in the Standards tree involves writing an RFC (for IETF formats) or a W3C standards track document (for W3C formats) or the equivalent standards track document (for other standards organizations). W3C Notes are not standards track documents: "This document is a NOTE made available by the W3 Consortium for discussion only. This indicates no endorsement of its content, nor that the Consortium has, is, or will be allocating any resources to the issues addressed by the NOTE." LW> Given that W3 has not bothered to do this themselves, Given that such W3C notes are not eligible for registration in the Standards tree, LW> I'd recommend that LW> you file a small, informational RFC for this, so that the MIME type can LW> eventually be added. Yup. Or register in the vnd. or prs. trees as appropriate. Or use application/x.gdiff (without registration). -- Chris Lilley mailto:chris@w3.org Chair, W3C SVG Working Group Member, W3C Technical Architecture Group
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