RE: Problem with IANA MIME media types registry

All,

I'll check on this today and see what needs to be done to get this fixed.

Michelle Cotton
IANA

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Lilley [mailto:chris@w3.org] 
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 12:30 AM
To: Bruce Lilly
Cc: webmaster@iana.org; iana@iana.org; ietf@ietf.org;
ietf-types@alvestrand.no
Subject: Re: Problem with IANA MIME media types registry

On Sunday, December 11, 2005, 3:39:58 PM, Bruce wrote:

BL> [CC'd to IETF discussion list and ietf-types discussion list]

BL> Hello,

BL> Recent changes to the page at
BL> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html
BL> accessed via the link from the IANA Assigned numbers page 
BL> http://www.iana.org/numbers.html#M
BL> have rendered the registry of assigned media types useless.
BL> Prior to the recent change, the media types registry listed the 
BL> assigned MIME top-level media types, viz. application, audio, image, 
BL> message, model, multipart, text, and video.  Since the change, only 
BL> the application top-level type is listed (audio, image, message, 
BL> model, multipart, text, and video have vanished without a trace)

Or rather, become unlinked. For example
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/
is still there, just not linked anywhere.

I suspect its just an update glitch, but anyway....

BL> and superfluous repetition of the application subtypes listed in 
BL> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application
BL> has appeared (these of course are not top-level media types).

BL> Could you please investigate what has gone awry and regenerate a 
BL> page that provides top-level media types.

I agree, stable URIs for media types are very much needed.

-- 
 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris@w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG

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