Re: [apps-discuss] font/*

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Thu, 10 November 2011 01:58 UTC

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* Martin J. Dürst wrote:
>On 2011/11/09 10:16, Dave CROCKER wrote:
>> Thanks for raising this point. On reflection, I seem to recall that
>> adding top-level types is a Big Deal and not done.

>Of course adding a top-level type isn't something that's done every day, 
>but the last one was added almost 15 years (model/, January 1997, RFC 
>2077), and no next one (after font/) is lined up.

RFC 4735 introduced the "example" top level type in 2006. As far as I
can tell, there were a total of three comments on it, one on ietf-types
and two from the IESG, none of which were particularily negative.
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