Re: [apps-discuss] type name suffixes

[Ned Freed <[e-mail]>]

> > > The reason I ask is that I've had a few
> > > people ask me about this topic recently.

> > Well, the preferable thing would be to get the process Tony defined that I
> > included in 4288bis approved. Absent that, the rule is more or less that
> > you can use a suffix if you like and if it seems to make sense.

> Thanks for the clarification. I agree that the right place to define
> this more carefully is 4288bis.

Yes, and that text is already in 4288bis. Please have a look and see if you
think it is OK - there have been very few comments on it.

 In the meantime, let's say that someone
> wants to register "application/foo+bar" -- do we feel that they need to
> describe the "+bar" suffix in a separate specification, or can they
> simply go ahead and use the suffix in the I-D that registers the "foo"
> application, perhaps along with some explanatory text?

I'd reccomment including some explanatory text saying where the format
associated with the suffix is defined, but I see no need for a separate
specification. In fact the 4288bis approach is specifically intended to make a
separate specification unnecessary.

				Ned