Re: [media-types] WG: Still need an editor....

Hi Yeshwant,

On 14/02/2022 23:40, Yeshwant Muthusamy wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> Since Harald's last message calling for volunteer editors for the 
> "process for creating a new top level type", the silence has been 
> quite deafening. Is it a lack of interest or bandwidth or both?
>
> A review of the mediaman charter 
> (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mediaman/about/) reveals a dependency 
> relationship between the first two items on the charter, but it is not 
> to the point where Item #2 is killed off if no progress is made on 
> Item #1 (at least that’s the way I understand it from the wording):
>
>  1. Determine whether any specific criteria or guidance are warranted
>     to handle registration of future top-level media types, and
>     publish any such guidance.
>  2. Develop and process the pending ‘haptics’ top-level media type
>     request, based on draft-muthusamy-dispatch-haptics, and the
>     outcome of the previous work item.
>
> Are members OK with proceeding with Item #2 and punting on Item #1 
> until a later point in time?
>
Yes, this would be fine with me.
>
> After all, ‘font’ went through the process just fine (and was approved 
> as an RFC) without Item #1.
>
"font" was done in another WG, so the comparison is not quite exact.
>
> Since I have a vested interest in moving Item #2 forward, I am more 
> than happy to serve as editor for Item #1, with the proviso that IETF 
> members more well-versed in top-level media type registrations are 
> willing to contribute to the draft and help me along.
>
> Any takers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Yeshwant
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: media-types <media-types-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Harald 
> Alvestrand
> Sent: Wednesday, December 1, 2021 4:32 PM
> To: media-types@ietf.org
> Subject: [media-types] WG: Still need an editor....
>
> At the moment, the -haptics draft has been republished as 
> draft-ietf-mediaman-haptics-00.
>
> We're still waiting for the -suffixes draft to be republished under 
> the new name.
>
> But more importantly, we're still hoping for someone to volunteer as 
> editor for the "process for creating a new top level type".
>
> Any takers?
>
> Harald
>
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