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

Hi Paul,

On 16/10/2018 16:04, Paul Libbrecht wrote:
> 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)?

Post a new draft with the new template(*)? I can't promise that there
would be enough energy to get the update done, but seeing something
concrete would certainly help.

(*) - if you never done this, contact me off-list.

Thank you,
Alexey

> 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.
> 
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