Re: Registration of media type application/ttaf+xml

On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 00:44 +0200, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:
> >The following media type registration will be submitted to
> >the IESG for review, approval, and registration with IANA (as per [1]).
> >
> >At this point, we would appreciate comments on this registration
> >information.  If you see any problems, please let us know.
> 
> The security and interoperability sections must point out that the re-
> gistration fails to comply with the RFC 3023 SHOULD-level requirement
> for types using the "+xml" convention to have an optional charset para-
> meter and its omission permits construction of entities that carry the
> parameter that will be processed differently by different components of
> a system with possibly harmful or otherwise surprising results.
> 
> >This appendix registers a new MIME media type, "application/ttaf+xml"
> >in conformance with [1144]BCP 13 and [1145]W3CRegMedia. 
> 
> >    [1144] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4288.txt
> >    [1145] http://www.w3.org/2002/06/registering-mediatype.html
> 
> This appears to be incorrect; the W3C procedure requires ietf-types
> review to occur as part of a Last Call announcement. However, this
> appears to be the first mention of this type on ietf-types and the
> document is already past the Last Call stage.

That's correct, however the review didn't occur at Last Call so we're
doing it now. Since the document isn't in REC or PR yet, we'll be able
to fix the template.

Thank you for your comments Bjoern, we'll do the necessary changes,

Philippe

Received on Thursday, 1 October 2009 01:20:28 UTC