[apps-discuss] Review of draft-levine-application-gzip-01.txt

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

Hi John,
I am sorry I've missed this document earlier.

I am generally happy that you wrote this draft and support its 
publication. Having said that, I think it needs some changes:

In Section 1:

    Some applications have informally used the media type application/
    x-gzip.  The media types defined in this document should replace that
    media type in future applications.

Also I've seen application/x-gzip-compressed being mentioned on the web.

But I think it would be better to wait for 
draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs-04 to be submitted to IESG (it is in 
the APPSAWG WGLC now). That document would relax restrictions on 
registering x-* media types. I think your document should register media 
types already in use, as changing existing implementations to use 
application/gzip is hopeless at this point, unless there is some 
evidence that application/gzip is also in use. In the latter case 
aliasing mechanism proposed in draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs should 
be used.

3.1.  Regsistration Details

    Person and email address to contact for further information: see
    http://www.gzip.net/

I've just tried this URI and I am getting "this domain is for sale". It 
doesn't look like this is a good stable reference.

5. References

This Section should be named "Normative References".

Nit: spot typos in names of Sections 2.1 and 3.1.