Document Action: The 'text/html' Media Type to Informational
The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> Sat, 22 April 2000 21:26 UTC
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Subject: Document Action: The 'text/html' Media Type to Informational
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 17:14:26 -0400
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The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'The 'text/html' Media Type' <draft-connolly-text-html-02.txt> as an Informational RFC. This document supersedes the current MIME registration of the text/html content-type, which references a now-obsolete version of the HTML specification. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Keith Moore and Patrik Faltstrom. In the same action, the IESG reclassified the following RFCs as Historic: RFC1866 Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0 RFC1867 Form-based File Upload in HTML RFC1942 HTML Tables RFC1980 A Proposed Extension to HTML: Client-Side Image Maps RFC2070 Internationalization of the Hypertext Markup Language The listed RFCs are obsolete versions of the HTML specification. The current HTML specification which is maintained by the World Wide Web consortium should be used for new implementations. Technical Summary This document updates the MIME media-type registration for text/html to point to the latest HTML specifications from the World Wide Web Consortium. The previous registration referred to RFC 1886, which has since been obsoleted by W3C documents. Since the other RFCs listed above have also been obsoleted, they are being reclassified as Historic documents to make it clear that they are no longer the current specifications for HTML and its extensions. Working Group Summary This action was not initiated by a working group, but it has been reviewed and commented on by interested members of the community. Protocol Quality Keith Moore reviewed the document for IESG. Note to RFC Editor: The IESG requests that the two occurances of MUST be lowercased prior to publication.