Re: [media-types] [dispatch] [art] Status of Haptics I-D in DISPATCH?

[Francesca Palombini <[e-mail]>]

Hi all,

While looking to progress the haptics registration request (and following draft) [1], Ned has suggested we might need to create a media type working group to work on media type items that require particular attentions. That could include top level media types registrations, and also other media type related items. This would not change the way media type registrations are done, but rather create a forum for discussion. Ned specifically mentions the following: 

> (0) This haptics top-level type.
> 
> (1) The proposal to allow multiple media type suffixes.
>
> (2) Media types for programming languages
>
> (3) Improved guidelines for constructing media type security considerations.
>
> (4) Review the format of the media type registry. One suggestion, which
>         I think came from John Klensin, was that given media type names can be
>         grandfathered, the name itself isn't a reliable indicator of the
>         of the tree, so a column listing the tree the type is in would be
>         helpful.

Ned also suggested to get input from the media-type mailing list, which is a very good idea, hence this email.

I am interested to hear your opinion, if you think creating such a wg would be a good idea and you'd participate in it, if you have proposals that would fit in such a wg, and especially if you'd be willing to actively help the wg creation (help out with chartering, chairing etc). On my side, and speaking only for myself, I have been warned of long running working groups, but I am not against it if there is enough interest and people are willing to put in the time and effort to make this work.

Francesca

[1] thread starting here https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/dispatch/tWCxfDGYCoTcXld1anEGewYI05c/ for context