Re: [ietf-types] Registration of media type application/senml+json

Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> Tue, 21 September 2010 22:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-types] Registration of media type application/senml+json
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* Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>On 9/21/10 1:12 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote:
>
>>   Type name:  application
>> 
>>    Subtype name:  senml+json
>
>I thought that the "+xml" convention was for the special class of media
>types that represent XML MIME entities (RFC 3023). Is there a similar
>class of "JSON MIME entities" that would justify "+json"? I don't see a
>definition for such a class in RFC 4627 (not that I think it's a bad idea).

There are by now a number of "+type" media types (the registry has +der,
+wbxml, +fastinfoset) and I've seen "+json" a number of times in the
wild, http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-json-res/ for instance uses it.
http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-types/2006-June/001755.html has
http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-types/2006-June/001756.html as
only comment that I could find.
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