- From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:42:49 -0400
- To: "John Daggett" <jdaggett@mozilla.com>
- Cc: "www-font" <www-font@w3.org>, <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
On Friday, July 31, 2009 5:11 PM John Daggett wrote: > > > > We should probably register a MIME type for EOT-Lite (e.g. > > > application/font-eotlite). > > > > I would like to inquire the group if you see any need to apply to > IANA > > for a top-level MIME type registration for fonts. The same question > > has been raised more than once in different organizations (in ISO/IEC > > SC34 and SC29, in OpenType forum) and since the number of different > > font formats and flavors (both current and historical) used by > various > > applications now exceed two dozens, it would make sense to consider > > having "font/..." registered as a top-level MIME type (similar to > > image/... and other MIME types). > > > > I know that in the past (circa 2003/2004) W3C Timed-Text group has > > made an approach to do that, and it failed mostly due to the lack of > > support; but the same issue has recently been discussed in both > > ISO/IEC SC29 and SC34 subcommittees, and together with ISO and W3C on > > board I believe we can submit a joint application and present a solid > > case why the top-level "font/..." MIME type is needed. > > Adding a top-level MIME type for fonts makes the most sense to me but > when we > asked about this previously the answer was "this will take forever, if > at all". CC'ing Martin Duerst in case he has something to add. The > alternative is some form of "application/font-xxx" which would take > less time. Yes, I've heard similar things but maybe we can get their attention if we submit a joint ISO/IEC/W3C application. ISO/IEC SC29/WG11 already approved this, and if/when a joint team of editors is established, I was selected to be the one from SC29/WG11. I can contact the interested parties from SC34/WG2, and we can prepare and submit the application to IANA soon. John, do you have any suggestions who should I ask to officially represent W3C? Could it be one of us or do we need someone from W3 Team? Thank you, Vlad
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