Re: [arcmedia] [apps-discuss] Proposed charter for arcmedia

Stian Soiland-Reyes <soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk> Tue, 30 December 2014 05:59 UTC

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Hi - what's the status of the chartering of the arcmedia WG? I don't
see that it has been added to http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/ and
there is no further emails on the arcmedia mailing list.



On 13 November 2014 at 21:02, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com> wrote:
> Some text I threw together for a possible arcmedia charter.  Feel free to
> hack on it.
>
> Also, if anyone is interested in participating in the management of this
> working group, please let Barry know.  It is likely at this point that this
> will be a short-lived working group which will never actually meet.
>
> --- snip ---
>
> There has been recent work to register media types for archive formats such
> as “tar” (a POSIX standard format).  There are already several similar media
> types for archive formats, such as “gzip” and “zip” (see, for example,
> RFC6713), all of which are registered under the top-level media type
> “application”.
>
> We create top-level media types only rarely, only with Standards Track RFCs,
> and only when one or more media types get special (or common, in the case of
> more than one) handling that does not fit under an existing top-level media
> type.  RFC6838 defines this process.
>
> This working group will create an “archive” top-level media type in a
> Standards Track document, using draft-seantek-kerwin-arcmedia-type as its
> initial input.  It will specify rules for registering subtypes under that
> new top-level type.  All of the usual things will be considered, including
> type suffixes, fragment identifiers, and internationalization.
>
> Either in that same document or in a second one, it will produce an initial
> set of registrations under the new top-level media type.
>
> The main document will include an Implementation Status section, described
> by RFC6982, to record known projects that will either produce or consume
> content using the new media type.  If by the first milestone there appears
> to be no implementations of the new media type expected, the working group
> will fold having produced no RFCs.
>
> No other work is in scope for this working group.
>
> Milestones:
> - June 2015: Base document
> - December 2015: Registrations document (if separate)
>
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