Technical Summary
This document provides the Media Type Registration for the subtype
image/webp.
Working Group Summary
The document is not a product of a working group, and is sponsored by an
Area Director. Discussion has occurred on the DISPATCH and MEDIA-TYPES
lists.
Document Quality
WebP is natively supported in Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox,
Edge, the Opera browser, and by many other tools and software
libraries. Developers have also added support to a variety of
image editing tools.
The media type reviewers have already submitted feedback,
which was incorporated.
Personnel
Document Shepherd: Huapeng Zhou
Responsible Area Director: Murray Kucherawy
IESG Note
This document was previously approved for publication (as -11) but then heavily
revised during AUTH48, so I sent it around for another Last Call and it is
returning for a new ballot.