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... charsets, and access methods without any changes to the basic
protocol. A registration process is needed, however, to ensure that
the set of such values is developed in an orderly, well-specified,
and public manner.
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... and public manner.
This document defines registration procedures that use the Internet
Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) as a central registry ...
... 2046draft defines an initial set of access types but allows for the
registration of additional access types to accommodate new retrieval
mechanisms.
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... Registration Requirements ...
... Registration Procedure ...
... IANA Registration ...
... IANA will register the access
type and make the registration available to the community. The
specification of the access type must also be published as an RFC.
...
... access type reviewer and
forwarded to the IANA for registration, or in response to a
communication from the IESG that an access type ...
... and fully described. If additional security issues come to light
after initial publication and registration, they SHOULD be addressed
by publishing revised versions of the transfer encoding
specification ...
... IANA Procedures for Transfer Encoding Registration ...
... There is no need for a special procedure for registering Transfer
Encodings with the IANA. All legitimate transfer encoding
registrations MUST appear as a standards-track RFC, so it is the
IESG's ...
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The list of transfer encoding registrations can be found at:
http://www.iana.org/assignments/transfer-encodings ...
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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 ...
... Freed, N. and J. Klensin, "Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 4288, December 2005. ...
... Freed, N., Klensin, J., and J. Postel, "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures", BCP 13, RFC 2048(-> 4289 | 4288), November 1996. ...
... Freed, N. and J. Postel, "IANA Charset Registration Procedures", BCP 19, RFC 2278(-> 2978), January 1998. ...
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o Media type registration procedures are now described in a separate
document [RFC4288].
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