Re: [media-types] Registering our company in the Vendor tree for use in Accepts Header

Tony Hansen <tony@att.com> Wed, 26 March 2014 12:28 UTC

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On 3/25/14, 10:39 PM, "Martin J. Dürst" wrote:
> On 2014/03/25 06:56, Sujoy Gupta wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Pursuant to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288, I am interested in
>> registering "appdirect" in the Vendor tree. This is so that we can use
>> headers such as Content-Type: application/vnd.appdirect.acme.v2+json
>> without conflict with existing vendors.
>
> As far as I understand, there are no registrations for vendors, just 
> for specific types.

To put it another way, Sujoy, when you have a specific media type to 
register, such as application/vnd.appdirect.acme.v2+json, THAT is when 
you follow the process from section 3.2 in RFC 4288.

     Tony Hansen