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... media type specification and registration
procedures that use the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) as
a central registry.
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... well-known producer
(e.g., "vnd.mudpie") or by an IANA-approved designation of the
producer's name that is followed by a media type ...
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From time to time and as required by the community, the IANA may, by
and with the advice and consent of the IESG, create ...
... personal tree, but may be either published as RFCs or otherwise
deposited with the IANA. The deposited specifications will meet the
same criteria as those required to register a well-known ...
... personal media type proposals is encouraged but not required. In all
cases the IANA will retain copies of all media type proposals and
"publish" them as part of the media types ...
... media type
registration template taken from Section 10. Additionally, the
copyright on the registration template MUST allow the IANA to copy it
into the IANA registry.
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... registration template MUST allow the IANA to copy it
into the IANA registry.
Other than IETF ...
... of a data type does not imply endorsement, approval, or
recommendation by the IANA or the IETF or even certification that the
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... standards tree, this additional
information MAY be provided in the formal specification of the media
type. It is suggested that this be done by incorporating the IANA
media type registration form into the specification itself.
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... vendor and personal tree should be submitted
directly to the IANA, ideally after first posting to the
ietf-types@iana.org list for review.
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... IANA Registration ...
... and has obtained whatever approval is necessary, the author may
submit the registration request to the IANA. Registration requests
can be sent to iana@iana.org. A web form for registration requests ...
... ietf-types@iana.org does not constitute submitting the
registration to the IANA.
When the registration ...
... standards tree submitted to the IESG, close
coordination between the IANA and the IESG means IESG approval in
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... IESG approval in
effect submits the registration to the IANA. There is no need for an
additional registration request in such cases.
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Registrations submitted to the IANA will be passed on to the media
types reviewer. The media types reviewer, who is appointed by the
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... Comments on registered media types may be submitted by members of the
community to the IANA. These comments will be reviewed by the media
types reviewer and then passed on to the "owner" of the media type if
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... possible. Submitters of comments may request that their comment be
attached to the media type registration itself, and if the IANA
approves of this, the comment will be made accessible in conjunction
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Media type registrations are listed by the IANA at:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types ...
... IANA Procedures for Registering Media Types ...
... registration has been approved. Vendor and personal types will be
registered by the IANA automatically and without any formal approval
process as long as the following minimal conditions are met:
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... media types MUST have a reasonable security considerations
section. (It is neither possible nor necessary for the IANA to
conduct a comprehensive security review of media type
registrations ...
... conduct a comprehensive security review of media type
registrations. Nevertheless, the IANA has the authority to
identify obviously incompetent material and return it to the
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Once a media type has been published by the IANA, the owner may
request a change to its definition. The descriptions of the
different registration trees ...
... The owner of a media type may pass responsibility to another person
or agency by informing the IANA and the ietf-types list; this can be
done without discussion ...
... change to their "intended use" field; such media types will be
clearly marked in the lists published by the IANA.
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... IANA Considerations ...
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The purpose of this document is to define IANA registries for media
types.
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The current authors would like to acknowledge their debt to the late
Dr. Jon Postel, whose general model of IANA registration procedures
and specific contributions shaped the predecessors of this document
[RFC2048 ...
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o Security considerations and IANA considerations sections have been
added.
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... media type registration templates
produced by other standards bodies have been dealt with by
requiring that the IANA be allowed to copy the registration
template into the registry.
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