Re: [Wpack] Approach to use for web packaging media types

Hi Murray,

Your message below refers to a working group, but an IETF working group has
not yet been formed.  Do you mean the W3C interest group, or can Jeffrey go
ahead with the process you outlined on the strength of the upcoming BoF?

Ted

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 10:22 AM Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Jeffrey,
>
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 3:17 PM Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
> wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> These specifications haven't been accepted into an IETF WG yet, so I
>> hadn't asked for provisional registration, but since we've already deployed
>> some code using application/signed-exchange and are implementing support
>> for application/webbundle, Ted Hardie suggested we get your advice on how
>> to handle the media types..
>>
>
> You can submit a provisional registration for those names.  All you need
> is the name(s) you want to reserve and contact information, which I believe
> could be the chairs or yourself, as the working group pleases, and stick
> that in an email to media-types@iana.org.  I don't think they need formal
> review or approval beyond that (according to RFC 6838 Section 5.2.1); IANA
> just does it.
>
> Later, when the working group has a complete registration to standardize,
> that would replace the provisional stub and move it to a regular
> registration.  Since it's coming from a working group, IESG approval of the
> document completes the registration process, though you're welcome to
> request a review of the formal registration from us at any time in the
> process.  If you decide to change the names or otherwise abandon the
> provisional registrations, please let us know so they're not left dangling.
>
> -MSK
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