Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
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Network Working Group N. Freed
Internet-Draft Oracle
Obsoletes: 4288 (if approved) J. Klensin
Intended status: BCP
Expires: October 28, 2012 T. Hansen
AT&T Laboratories
April 26, 2012
Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs-06
Abstract
This document defines procedures for the specification and
registration of media types for use in HTTP, MIME and other Internet
protocols.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Historical Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Media Type Registration Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Registration Trees and Subtype Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.1. Standards Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3.2. Vendor Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3.3. Personal or Vanity Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.4. Unregistered x. Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.5. Additional Registration Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4. Registration Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1. Functionality Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2. Naming Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
4.2.1. Text Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.2.2. Image Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.3. Audio Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.4. Video Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.5. Application Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.2.6. Multipart and Message Media Types . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2.7. Additional Top-level Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2.8. Structured Syntax Name Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.2.9. Deprecated Aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.3. Parameter Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
4.4. Canonicalization and Format Requirements . . . . . . . . . 14
4.5. Interchange Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.6. Security Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
4.7. Requirements specific to XML media types . . . . . . . . . 16
4.8. Encoding Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.9. Usage and Implementation Non-requirements . . . . . . . . 17
4.10. Publication Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.11. Fragment Identifier Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.12. Additional Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5. Media Type Registration Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.1. Preliminary Community Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
5.2. Submit request to IANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
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