Re: [media-types] Update of MIME media type application/pkcs7-mime Registration

[Alexey Melnikov <[e-mail]>]

On 13/06/2013 13:51, Sean Turner wrote:
> On 6/13/13 6:47 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>> * Sean Turner wrote:
>>> The application/pkcs7-mime content type defines the optional "smime-
>>> type" parameter [RFC5751].  The smime-type parameter for Server-side
>>> Key Generation Response is server-generated-key.
>>>
>>> smime-type name: server-generated-key
>>>
>>> Required parameters: None
>>
>> This should be preceded by
>>
>>    Type name: application
>>
>>    Subtype name: pkcs7-mime
>>
>> If this is supposed to register the application/pkcs7-mime type. But it
>> seems to me that using the media type registration template here is not
>> correct, I would rather expect "Updates: 5751" and then simply defining
>> the additional smime-type parameter, no need for the template.
>
> It's not registering application/pkcs7-mime is adding a parameter. If 
> I understand correctly, if we added "Updates: 5751 (once approved)" to 
> the header we could just omit the template completely?  I'd argue that 
> if we don't need the template that's great, but what's more important 
> is that people be able to find these subtypes and the way to do that 
> is to have them pointed to by the registry not the original document.  
> How about if we just omit the template and ask IANA to *also* point to 
> this document from the application/pkcs7-mime registry?
Sounds sensible to me. (But also see my other email).