Re: SOAP IANA considerations

At 10:58 AM 12/6/01 -0500, Mark Baker wrote:
>We have identified three items requiring registration with IANA;
>
>- SOAP media type
>- SOAPAction header (*)
>- SOAPAction-negotiation HTTP response code
>
>(*) there is currently no HTTP header registry at IANA, but we can 
>establish one

Has this been discussed with anyone in the IETF, such as the applications 
area directors?

I ask because it's not clear to me that creating the header registry would 
necessarily be a trivial exercise.  Given that HTTP shares some headers 
with MIME, should the HTTP registry be completely separate fro MIME (and 
other email-related) headers?  Similar thoughts arise with respect to 
news-related headers (again, because MIME is the linking theme).

If it helps, I currently have a proposal on the table at 
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klyne-msghdr-registry-00.txt, 
whose primary goal is to provide a place for email-related headers.  This 
has had some discussion on the IETF general applications / rfc822 mailing 
lists, a couple of months ago.

#g


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