Re: [ietf-types] Registration for application/its+xml

["Martin J. Dürst" <[e-mail]>]

Hello Felix,

This looks good to me. Glad to see this registration finally coming through.

Regards,   Martin.

On 2012/12/06 22:17, Felix Sasaki wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is Appendix B of ITS 2.0
>
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/WD-its20-20121206/#its-mime-type
>
> Comments on this registration would be greatly appreciated.
>
> ==========
> This section defines a MIME type for Internationalization Tag Set (ITS)
> documents. It covers both ITS 1.0 and ITS 2.0.
>
> Type name: application
>
> Subtype name: its+xml
>
> Required parameters: none
>
> Optional parameters: charset
>
> This parameter has identical semantics to the charset parameter of the
> "application/xml" media type as specified in IETF RFC 3023.
>
> Encoding considerations: Identical to those of "application/xml" as
> described in IETF RFC 3023, section 3.2, as applied to an ITS document.
>
> Security considerations: An ITS 1.0 or ITS 2.0 document may cause
> arbitrary URIs or IRIs to be dereferenced, via the @xlink:href attribute
> at the its:rules element. Therefore, the security issues of [RFC3987]
> Section 8 should be considered. In addition, the contents of resources
> identified by file: URIs can in some cases be accessed, processed and
> returned as results. An implementation of ITS global rules requires the
> support of XPath 1.0 or its successor. Hence, processing of global rules
> might encompass dereferencing of URIs or IRIs during computation of
> XPath expressions. Arbitrary recursion is possible, as is arbitrarily
> large memory usage, and implementations may place limits on CPU and
> memory usage, as well as restricting access to system-defined functions.
> ITS 1.0 and ITS 2.0 permit extensions. Hence it is possible that
> application/its+xml may describe content that has security implications
> beyond those described here.
>
> Interoperability considerations: There are no known interoperability
> issues.
>
> Published specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/REC-its-20070403/ and
> http://www.w3.org/TR/its20/.
>
> Any XML document containing ITS 1.0 "its:rules" elements
> http://www.w3.org/TR/its/#selection-global can be labeled with
> application/its+xml.
> http://www.w3.org/TR/its/EX-link-external-rules-2.xml Provides an
> example of a document linking to a file with ITS 1.0 and ITS 2.0
> "rules". The link target is at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/its/EX-link-external-rules-1.xml. There is no need
> that the link target has "its:rules" as a root element. The processing
> semantics is that rules are gathered in document order.
>
> Applications that use this media type: This new media type is being
> registered to allow for deployment of ITS 1.0 and ITS 2.0 on the World
> Wide Web., e.g. by localization tools.
>
> Additional information:
>
> Magic number(s): none
>
> File extension(s): its
>
> Macintosh file type code(s): TEXT
>
> Person & email address to contact for further information: World Wide
> Web Consortium <web-human at w3.org>
>
> Intended usage: COMMON
>
> Restrictions on usage: none
>
> Author / Change controller: The Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) 1.0
> and 2.0 specifications are a work product of the World Wide Web
> Consortium's Internationalization Tag Set Working Group. The W3C has
> change control over this specification.
> ==========
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