Re: [ietf-types] Status of application/patch or text/patch?

[Jon Moore <[e-mail]>]

Well, 2+ years is pretty recent in IETF time. :)

Thanks for the guidance, I'll follow up with APPSAWG. 

Jon
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Jon Moore


On Jul 11, 2012, at 3:24 AM, Julian Reschke <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 2012-07-11 03:12, Jon Moore wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Given the recent arrival of HTTP PATCH in RFC 5789[1], it seems like
> 
> 2+ years :-)
> 
>> registering a media type for the output of the 'diff' utility would be
>> a good idea. I found this thread from 2007 where Julian Reschke
>> proposed this exact thing:
>> 
>> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-types/current/msg00591.html
>> 
>> Does anyone know where this landed? I'd like to pick up the torch and
> 
> Nowhere, as far as I can tell.
> 
>> at least work on text/diff (using the unified diff format, and limited
>> to those diffs that can be rendered as valid text/* types). I've
>> started putting together an Internet Draft for it, but was wondering
>> if this had actually run into technical trouble, or if it just ran out
>> of steam in 2007.
>> 
>> Any guidance would be appreciated!
> 
> My recollection is that I got lost in the output format variations and potential copyrights.
> 
> So please go ahead; the IETF APPSAWG mailing list probably is a good place to get feedback.
> 
> Best regards, Julian