Re: [ietf-types] Registration of media typeimage/svg+xml

["Martin J. Dürst" <[e-mail]>]

This looks good to me. I hope this can move forward to the next step 
(IESG approval?) soon, so that image/svg+xml can finally be properly 
registered.

Regards,   Martin.

On 2010/11/25 7:36, Chris Lilley wrote:
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> This is an updated registration request, incorporating the latest
> round of feedback.
>
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> Type name:
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>      image
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> Subtype name:
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>      svg+xml
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> Required parameters:
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>      None.
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> Optional parameters:
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>      charset
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>      Same as application/xml media type, as specified in [RFC3023] or
>      its successors.
>
> Encoding considerations:
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>      Same as for application/xml. See [RFC3023], section 3.2 or its
>      successors.
>
> Security considerations:
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>      As with other XML types and as noted in [RFC3023] section 10,
>      repeated expansion of maliciously constructed XML entities can be
>      used to consume large amounts of memory, which may cause XML
>      processors in constrained environments to fail.
>
>      Several SVG elements may cause arbitrary URIs to be referenced. In
>      this case, the security issues of [RFC3986], section 7, should be
>      considered.
>
>      In common with HTML, SVG documents may reference external media
>      such as images, audio, video, style sheets, and scripting
>      languages. Scripting languages are executable content. In this
>      case, the security considerations in the Media Type registrations
>      for those formats shall apply.
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>      In addition, because of the extensibility features for SVG and of
>      XML in general, it is possible that "image/svg+xml" may describe
>      content that has security implications beyond those described
>      here. However, if the processor follows only the normative
>      semantics of the published specification, this content will be
>      outside the SVG namespace and shall be ignored. Only in the case
>      where the processor recognizes and processes the additional
>      content, or where further processing of that content is dispatched
>      to other processors, would security issues potentially arise. And
>      in that case, they would fall outside the domain of this
>      registration document.
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> Interoperability considerations:
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>      The published specification describes processing semantics that
>      dictate behavior that must be followed when dealing with, among
>      other things, unrecognized elements and attributes, both in the
>      SVG namespace and in other namespaces.
>
>      Because SVG is extensible, conformant "image/svg+xml" processors
>      must expect that content received is well-formed XML, but it
>      cannot be guaranteed that the content is valid to a particular DTD
>      or Schema or that the processor will recognize all of the elements
>      and attributes in the document.
>
>      SVG has a published Test Suite and associated implementation
>      report showing which implementations passed which tests at the
>      time of the report. This information is periodically updated as
>      new tests are added or as implementations improve.
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> Published specification:
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>      This media type registration is extracted from Appendix P of the
>      SVG 1.1 specification.
>      http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/mimereg.html
>
> Applications that use this media type:
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>      SVG is used by Web browsers, often in conjunction with HTML; by
>      mobile phones and digital cameras, as a format for interchange of
>      graphical assets in desk top publishing, for industrial process
>      visualization, display signage, and many other applications which
>      require scalable static or interactive graphical capability.
>
> Additional information:
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>      Magic number(s):
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>      File extension(s):
>          svg
>
>          Note that the extension 'svgz' is used as an alias for
>          'svg.gz' [RFC1952], i.e. octet streams of type image/svg+xml,
>          subsequently compressed with gzip.
>
>      Macintosh file type code(s):
>
>          "svg " (all lowercase, with a space character as the fourth letter).
>
>          Note that the Macintosh file type code 'svgz' (all lowercase)
>          is used as an alias for GZIP [RFC1952] compressed "svg ", i.e.
>          octet streams of type image/svg+xml, subsequently compressed
>          with gzip.
>
>      Macintosh Universal Type Identifier code:
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>          org.w3c.svg conforms to public.image and to public.xml
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>      Windows Clipboard Name:
>
>          "SVG Image"
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>      Fragment Identifiers
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>          For documents labeled as application/svg+xml, the fragment
>          identifier notation is that for application/xml, as specified
>          in RFC 3023 or its successors, plus the SVG-specific SVG Views
>          syntax described in the SVG specification.
>
> Person&  email address to contact for further information:
>
>      Chris Lilley, Doug Schepers ([e-mail]).
>
> Intended usage:
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>      COMMON
>
> Restrictions on usage:
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>      None
>
> Author:
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>      The SVG specification is a work product of the World Wide Web
>      Consortium's SVG Working Group.
>
> Change controller:
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>      The W3C has change control over this specification.
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#-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University
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