Re: IANA Considerations

Framed is definitely an issue, since passing a URI as a mime-type parameter would be a non-starter; probably not sufficient to set format=framed without some other out-of-band communication of the frame. Note that application/json+ld;format=framed is reasonable as a Content-Type.

Also, I'd like to keep the straight application/ld+json for an un-specified serialization. My library tries to be intelligent about creating @context/@coerce entries and use of chaining along the lines of other serializers I've written. This may not be specified, but it should be allowed.

Gregg

On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:18 PM, Manu Sporny wrote:

> An IANA Considerations section has been added to the specification
> (Appendix D):
> 
> http://json-ld.org/spec/latest/
> 
> Input from the mailing list was considered, as was a bit of discussion
> with the WHATWG folks:
> 
> http://krijnhoetmer.nl/irc-logs/whatwg/20110818#l-963
> 
> I also talked w/ Shane McCarron, who was involved in many of the XHTML
> specs, who pointed me to how the "+xml" pattern started for IANA
> registration:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt
> 
> I also looked at the list of application/* IANA types, which has some
> prior art for a "+json" pattern:
> 
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/index.html
> 
> All of that resulted in a MIME media type for JSON-LD of:
> 
> application/ld+json
> 
> I don't necessarily like it - but it is consistent with the state of the
> art in MIME media type registration. You can specifically request things
> like Compacted form by doing the following in the HTTP request header:
> 
> Content-Type: application/ld+json;format=compacted
> 
> As an added bonus, this "format" mechanism is going to make writing the
> test suite a bit easier as it will be able to switch on the "format"
> parameter in the Content-Type field.
> 
> So, the IANA Considerations are nailed down pretty well at this point.
> If you don't agree with the direction, please say why and make sure to
> reference specs, consistent usage or prior-art as a basis for your
> arguments.
> 
> -- manu
> 
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