Re: [media-types] Add RFC reference to image/png mime type registration?

Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> Tue, 18 September 2018 02:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [media-types] Add RFC reference to image/png mime type registration?
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On 17-Sep-18 02:52, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> The registration for image/png on
> <URL: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/png> could use
> an update.
Well, it dates to 1995 :)
>    It mention a IETF Internet draft, but since the draft was
> written the end result has been published as RFC 2083,
> <URL: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2083 >.
Which dates to 1996
>   I suspect it is a good
> idea to mention this RFC in the registration text.

No, I don't agree. The most recent reference is from 2003:

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Specification (Second Edition)
https://www.w3.org/TR/PNG/

also published as an ISO standard
Information technology — Computer graphics and image processing — 
Portable Network Graphics (PNG): Functional specification. ISO/IEC 
15948:2003 (E)

But perhaps RFC 2083 could be obsoleted?

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Chris Lilley
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