The application/sql Media Type
draft-shafranovich-mime-sql-03

Network Working Group                                    Y. Shafranovich
Internet-Draft                                    Shaftek Enteprises LLC
Intended status: Informational                          January 22, 2013
Expires: July 26, 2013

                     The application/sql Media Type
                   draft-shafranovich-mime-sql-03.txt

Abstract

   This document registers the application/sql media type to be used for
   the Structured Query Language (SQL).

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   2.  Media Type Registration Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
   3.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   4.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   5.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   6.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   Appendix A.  Status of This Document [To Be Removed Upon
                Publication] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
     A.1.  Discussion Venue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
   Author's Address  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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1.  Introduction

   The Structured Query Language (SQL) has been in use for over 30 years
   with various types of database technologies.  However, there is no
   current media type registered for SQL.  Therefore, this document
   seeks to formally register the application/sql media type to be used
   for SQL with IANA.

2.  Media Type Registration Application

   This section provides the media type registration application (see
   [draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs], Section 5.6) which will be
   submitted to IANA after approval of this document.

   Type name: application

   Subtype name: sql

   Required parameters: N/A

   Optional parameters:

      "charset" - indicates the character set to be used.  When not
      specified, US-ASCII should be assumed.

      Implementators should note that as per section 4.2.4, part 2 of
      [ISO.9075.2011], all SQL implementations are required to support
      US-ASCII, ISO-8859-1, UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings.  Those
      should be the only valid values for the charset parameter unless
      some other agreement exists between the parties.

      When using [Unicode], the [ISO.9075.2011] standard dictates a
      preference of UTF-8 over UTF-16, and UTF-16 over UTF-32.

   Encoding considerations:charset

      When no character set is specified via the "charset" parameter or
      US-ASCII is specified, 7bit encoding is used.  When other
      character sets are used, 8bit or binary encoding may be required.

   Security considerations:

      Being that SQL is a full fledged programming language and may
      include embedded source code for other programming languages, it
      may be used to transfer malware, viruses and other malicious
      payloads.  Implementors and users are encouraged only to exchange
      SQL files among trusted parties and utilize all available security

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      measures such as restricted access, virus scanners, etc. to
      minimize risk.

   Interoperability considerations:

      While a single standard exists ([ISO.9075.2011]), vendor
      implementations of the standard vary significantly.  Implementors
      and users should make sure that the exchanged SQL files match to
      the specific database/tool and version that they are using.

   Published specification:

      The most recent specification of SQL is available in
      [ISO.9075.2011].

   Applications that use this media type:

      Databases and related tools

   Fragment identifier considerations: N/A

   Additional information:

      Deprecated alias names for this type: N/A

      Magic number(s): N/A

      File extension(s): sql

      Macintosh File Type Code(s): TEXT

   Person & email address to contact for further information:

      Yakov Shafranovich <ietf@shaftek.org>

   Intended usage: COMMON

   Restrictions on usage: N/A

   Author: IESG

   Change controller: IESG

   Provisional registration? (standards tree only): N/A

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3.  IANA Considerations

   After approval, IANA is asked to register the media type application/
   sql in the Standards tree using the application provided in Section 2
   of this document.

4.  Security Considerations

   See the Security Considerations item in the registration template in
   Section 2, above.

5.  Acknowledgments

   To LTS, thanks for everything.

   The author would also like to thank all of the folks at
   xml.resource.org for providing many of the tools used for preparing
   RFCs and Internet drafts.

   A word of thanks to all members of the IANA's media-types list that
   provided feedback on this document.

6.  Normative References

   [ISO.9075.2011]
              International Organization for Standardization, "ISO/IEC
              9075:2011, Information Technology - Database Languages -
              Structured Query Language (SQL)", 2011.

   [Unicode]  The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard, Version
              6.2.0", 2012.

   [draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs]
              Freed, N., Klensin, J., and T. Hansen, "Media Type
              Specifications and Registration Procedures",
              draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs-14 (work in progress),
              June 2012.

Appendix A.  Status of This Document [To Be Removed Upon Publication]

A.1.  Discussion Venue

   Discussion about this document should be directed to IANA's media-
   types mailing list

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   <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/media-types> which is also
   reachable via <media-types@iana.org>.  Of course, comments directly
   to the author are always welcome.

Author's Address

   Yakov Shafranovich
   Shaftek Enteprises LLC

   Email: ietf@shaftek.org
   URI:   http://www.shaftek.org

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