Re: [media-types] updates to RFC6838 in the horizon?

["Paul Libbrecht" <[e-mail]>]

Dear all,

this topic seems to have gone asleep since a while.

Can anyone provide me information on the process of suggesting changes 
to the RFC 6838 (Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures)?

thanks in advance.

Paul

On 8 Dec 2016, at 23:17, Paul Libbrecht wrote:

> This goes along the proposal I had to add UTI and Windows clipboard 
> flavour names within the template. I remember having been too late 
> "last time".
> […]
> Ned, how is the process to file such a change fo the template?
>
>>> 2) Is there value in adding the Apple UTI (which is at least 
>>> documented, and in current use) to the registration templates?
>>
>> Not that I'm aware of, but more information can't hurt.
>>> My reason for asking is draft-ietf-justfont-toplevel
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-justfont-toplevel/
>>
>>> which will define a new top-level Media Type for fonts. I am very 
>>> tempted to just remove the "Macintosh file type code" from the 
>>> registration template, and could go either way on replacing it with 
>>> an "Apple Uniform Type Identifier"
>>> field - opinions welcome.
>>
>> Either way works.