Advancing our Registry Drafts on the Registry Track

Hello Media Working Group participants,

The group maintains a number of registries on the Registry Track [1]. 
These registries are currently published as Registry Drafts. In order to 
advance these documents on the Registry Track and publish them as 
Candidate Registry Snapshots, we need to solicit wide review of these 
documents.

Registries document values and do not define normative requirements 
related to those values. It is not entirely clear what horizontal review 
groups might be interested in reviewing in registry documents (we'll be 
the first W3C group to request such reviews in practice).

I'm proposing to send the documents in bulk to the horizontal review 
groups along with the note copied below. Let me know if you have comments!

Side note: publishing registries as Candidate Registry Snapshots does 
not prevent adding more entries to the table. It just makes the 
registration entry requirements more stable.

Thanks,
François

[1] https://www.w3.org/policies/process/#registries

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The Media Working Group maintains registries related to some of its 
specifications on the Recommendation track, namely Media Source 
Extensions (MSE), Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) and WebCodecs. The 
registries are published on the Registry Track as Registry Drafts. The 
Media Working Group would like to advance these documents on the 
Registry Track by publishing them as Candidate Registry Snapshot.

We're taking the liberty to request a review of all the registries at 
once and without further analysis because the registries all have 
similar registration entry requirements, and because it isn't clear to 
us what input you might be willing to receive to help your review of 
such documents. By definition, registries document values, they do not 
define any architectural or interoperability requirements related to 
those values. We would expect comments on these requirements to be 
raised against the underlying specifications (MSE, EME, WebCodecs).

Registry linked to MSE:
- Media Source Extensions Byte Stream Format Registry:
   https://www.w3.org/TR/mse-byte-stream-format-registry/

Registries linked to EME:
- Encrypted Media Extensions Initialization Data Format Registry:
   https://www.w3.org/TR/eme-initdata-registry/

- Encrypted Media Extensions Stream Format Registry:
   https://www.w3.org/TR/eme-stream-registry/

- Encrypted Media Extensions HDCP Version Registry:
   https://www.w3.org/TR/eme-hdcp-version-registry/

Registries linked to WebCodecs:
- WebCodecs Codec Registry:
   https://www.w3.org/TR/webcodecs-codec-registry/

- WebCodecs VideoFrame Metadata Registry:
   https://www.w3.org/TR/webcodecs-video-frame-metadata-registry/

Note: Most of the registries related to MSE and EME used to be published 
on the Note track (simply because the Registry track did not exist at 
the time of publication).

Received on Thursday, 16 July 2026 11:09:53 UTC