[media-types] image/svg+xml+gzip

["Murray S. Kucherawy" <[e-mail]>]

Colleagues,

A situation has been brought to the IESG's attention for assistance, and it
falls squarely into the media type suffixes problem space.

The above-named media type has been referenced in RFC 9399.  It was,
however, never registered, and this document neglected to notice this and
include the registration.  So now we basically have a proposed standard
squatting on a code point.  Even better, the registration includes multiple
suffixes, and we don't know exactly what that means, which is one of the
things MEDIAMAN was chartered to specify.  We've been asked to sort this
out as the type is apparently starting to get used.

So this adds a dash of urgency to the question we discussed at the mic at
119 and continued discussing when Meetecho came to tear down the A/V setup,
resulting in the most recent threads.  The IESG was asked to proceed with
the registration on the basis I described above, but I'm inclined not to do
so until this WG has published (or at least the IESG has approved) the
suffixes BCP; it doesn't make sense to me to potentially derail a piece of
chartered work especially when it seems like we're converging on a solution.

I don't know if that changes the calculus or the momentum, but I wanted to
make sure it's part of the equation.

-MSK, ART AD