Re: [media-types] Update of MIME media type application/pkcs7-mime Registration

[Sean Turner <[e-mail]>]

On 6/13/13 6:47 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Sean Turner wrote:
>> The application/pkcs7-mime content type defines the optional "smime-
>> type" parameter [RFC5751].  The smime-type parameter for Server-side
>> Key Generation Response is server-generated-key.
>>
>> smime-type name: server-generated-key
>>
>> Required parameters: None
>
> This should be preceded by
>
>    Type name: application
>
>    Subtype name: pkcs7-mime
>
> If this is supposed to register the application/pkcs7-mime type. But it
> seems to me that using the media type registration template here is not
> correct, I would rather expect "Updates: 5751" and then simply defining
> the additional smime-type parameter, no need for the template.

It's not registering application/pkcs7-mime is adding a parameter. If I 
understand correctly, if we added "Updates: 5751 (once approved)" to the 
header we could just omit the template completely?  I'd argue that if we 
don't need the template that's great, but what's more important is that 
people be able to find these subtypes and the way to do that is to have 
them pointed to by the registry not the original document.  How about if 
we just omit the template and ask IANA to *also* point to this document 
from the application/pkcs7-mime registry?

spt