Re: Update of application/xenc+xml media type registration

Done.

regards, Frederick

Frederick Hirsch
Nokia



On Dec 15, 2010, at 7:28 AM, ext Thomas Roessler wrote:

> FYI.
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> Probably worth linking to ACTION-499, ACTION-511 and ISSUE-180.
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> Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>  (@roessler)
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>> From: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
>> Date: 15 December 2010 13:26:12 GMT+01:00
>> To: iana@iana.org
>> Cc: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>, ietf-types@iana.org, Joseph Reagle <reagle@mit.edu>, Frederick Hirsch <Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com>
>> Subject: Update of application/xenc+xml media type registration
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>> Dear IANA,
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>> the W3C is the change controller for the XML Encryption specification, which is the published specification for the application/xenc+xml media type.
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>> The W3C XML Security Working Group has published a Last Call Working Draft for a version 1.1 of XML Encryption, including an updated media type registration template:
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>> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlenc-core1-20101130/
>> 	http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-xmlenc-core1-20101130/#sec-MediaType-Registration
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>> Please update the application/xenc+xml media type registration accordingly.
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>> A text version of the updated media type registration template is included for your convenience below the .signature of this note.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Thomas Roessler, W3C  <tlr@w3.org>
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>> 8.2 application/xenc+xml Registration
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>>  This is a media type registration as defined in Multipurpose Internet
>>  Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures
>>  [[350]MIME-REG]
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>>  Type name: application
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>>  Subtype name: xenc+xml
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>>  Required parameters: none
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>>  Optional parameters: charset
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>>    The allowable and recommended values for, and interpretation of the
>>    charset parameter are identical to those given for 'application/xml'
>>    in section 3.2 of RFC 3023 [[351]XML-MT].
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>>  Encoding considerations:
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>>    The encoding considerations are identical to those given for
>>    'application/xml' in section 3.2 of RFC 3023 [[352]XML-MT].
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>>  Security considerations:
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>>    See the [[353]XMLENC-CORE1] [354]Security Considerations section.
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>>  Interoperability considerations: none
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>>  Published specification: [[355]XMLENC-CORE1]
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>>  Applications which use this media type:
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>>    XML Encryption is device-, platform-, and vendor-neutral and is
>>    supported by a range of Web applications.
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>>  Additional Information:
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>>    Magic number(s): none
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>>    Although no byte sequences can be counted on to consistently
>>    identify XML Encryption documents, they will be XML documents in
>>    which the root element's QName's LocalPart is 'EncryptedData' or
>>    'EncryptedKey' with an associated namespace name of
>>    '[356]http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#'. The application/xenc+xml
>>    type name must only be used for data objects in which the root
>>    element is from the XML Encryption namespace. XML documents which
>>    contain these element types in places other than the root element
>>    can be described using facilities such as [[357]XMLSCHEMA-1],
>>    [[358]XMLSCHEMA-2].
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>>    File extension(s): .xml
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>>    Macintosh File Type Code(s): "TEXT"
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>>  Person & email address to contact for further information:
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>>    World Wide Web Consortium <web-human at w3.org>
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>>  Intended usage: COMMON
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>>  Author/Change controller:
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>>  The XML Encryption specification is a work product of the World Wide
>>  Web Consortium (W3C) which has change control over the specification.
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Received on Wednesday, 15 December 2010 16:29:05 UTC