[media-types] [IANA #1360120] application/vnd.msgpack registration request

[Amanda Baber via RT <[e-mail]>]

Hi Alexey,

Resending this request from March 1st.

thanks,
Amanda

On Fri Mar 01 18:14:00 2024, amanda.baber wrote:
> Hi Alexey,
> 
> Can you review this registration request by March 15th?
> 
> This was originally submitted as a request for standards-tree
> registration, but the submitter isn't affiliated with a standards
> organization and has yet to write an I-D.
> 
> He writes, "I would like to edit the registration template to make it
> a vendor-tree ('application/vnd.msgpack') registration request, as
> writing RFC would take some considerable time (but pretty much aim to
> do that anyway)."
> 
> thanks,
> Amanda
> 
> ===
> 
> Name: Alexander Ivanov
> 
> Email: [e-mail]
> 
> Media type name: application
> 
> Media subtype name: vnd.msgpack
> 
> Required parameters: N/A.
> 
> Optional parameters: N/A.
> 
> Encoding considerations: binary
> 
> Security considerations: This media type does not enforce a security
> mechanism, as it does not contain any executable content. The format
> specification does not provide any encryption or integrity checks, so
> appropriate mechanisms must be implemented at the application or
> transport level. The format allows applications to define application-
> specific types, so security considerations of such extensions cannot
> be assessed.
> 
> Interoperability considerations: The specification explicitly defines
> a way to encode information (relying on standards such as IEEE 754),
> as well as limitations to allow conversion to and from other encodings
> (such as JSON). This provides interoperability not just between
> implementations, applications and hardware, but media types as well.
> 
> Published specification:
> https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack/blob/master/spec.md
> https://msgpack.org/
> 
> Applications which use this media: MessagePack has been used to
> exchange arbitrary data between applications written in various
> programming languages and environments, replacing existing media types
> such as JSON.
> 
> Fragment identifier considerations: +msgpack
> 
> Restrictions on usage: N/A.
> 
> Provisional registration? (standards tree only): No
> 
> Additional information:
> 
> 1. Deprecated alias names for this type: application/x+msgpack
> 2. Magic number(s): N/A.
> 3. File extension(s): N/A.
> 4. Macintosh file type code: N/A.
> 5. Object Identifiers: N/A.
> 
> General Comments:
> 
> Person to contact for further information:
> 
> 1. Name: Alexander Ivanov
> 2. Email: [e-mail]
> 
> Intended usage: COMMON
> 
> Author/Change controller: Alexander Ivanov
> <[e-mail]>