Re: [media-types] Notice for a potential media type registration: application/td+json

[Matthias Kovatsch <[e-mail]>]

Dear Paul

Thank you very much for pointing us to the clipboard flavor names. I have been trying to figure out more from the IANA side, but they appear to be only managed by Microsoft and Apple, resp. Is there any IANA recommendation around it – as it is not even part of the registration form (https://www.iana.org/form/media-types). Can you or anyone else help on this?

I have also been thinking about the very specific “json-td” flavor name. One motivation has been that TD can be treated like JSON, for human “reasoning” and processing pipelines. At the moment, the most specific tools that we have are online editors that provide some syntax highlighting. Yet I think, no information would be lost when it is copied around as JSON. Technically, TDs are a specialization of JSON-LD, which in turn is a specialization of JSON, which again could be seen as a specialization of Unicode text.

Could someone explain, what for instance, the “public.json” flavor provides on top of “public.utf8-plain-text” when copy-pasting JSON documents? From this I could extrapolate what “json-td” could offer atop “json”. Are there any folks having arguments to have “json-ld” as a clipboard flavor name?

Thanks a lot,
Matthias