Re: [apps-discuss] font/* (and draft-freed-media-type-regs)

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> Besides vendor-specific types, the only registered font type that I am aware
> of is 'application/font-woff'. W3C WebFonts WG has submitted a registration for
> this subtype about a year ago, and the text of the registration is available as
> Annex B of the WOFF specification:

> http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/spec/#appendix-b

Submitted to whom? It isn't on the IANA page so it hasn't been approved unless
approval was very recent.

It's one thing if this registration is still bouncing around inside of the W3C
process - that's entirely the W3C's baliwick. But if this was submitted to the
IESG for approval, having an outstanding request for "about a year" is
COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE. And this is very much the main problem this entire
effort was intended to address, and which we seem to have great difficulty
focusing on.

> ISO SC29/WG11 has prepared the draft to register application/font-sfnt but it
> wasn't submitted yet.

FWIW, there are presently four registered font-ish types:

application/font-tdpfr (RFC 3073)
application/vnd.font-fontforge-sfd
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.fontTable+xml

				Ned