- From: Helder Magalhães <helder.magalhaes@gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:03:26 +0100
- To: www-SVG <www-svg@w3.org>
Hi everyone, As no updates were received since a few months ago [1] (unless I'm missing something, but since the SVG WG minutes started to be CC'ed to this public list I haven't noticed anything about this subject), today I went to the IANA page and confirmed that there's nothing regarding SVG [2] yet so I'd like to recall for the status of IANA registration for the SVG MIME type. Although this may sound somehow irrelevant (?), thing is until the SVG MIME type is formally registered, one can't argument against web hosting companies for file type registration. Of course one can link to relevant documents [3] [4] but, until a formal acceptance is made at IANA, the system administrator must be a reasonable person in order to accept the "registration of this MIME type is in progress at the W3C" [3] as a requirement (of course that the IANA registration doesn't assure anything, but it is surely a much better argumentation basis). I'm convinced that putting a bit a pressure on this simple matter would help towards content widespread: currently, authors need to have sufficient know-how and server access privileges in order to fix things [6] where the defaults aren't appropriate, which can easily turn into a brick wall for starters. Best regards, Helder [1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-svg/2009Feb/0008.html [2] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/ [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/intro.html#MIMEType [4] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGTiny12/mimereg.html [5] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt [6] http://wiki.svg.org/Server_Configuration
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