Proposed media type registration: application/wsdl+xml

The proposed registration below is for a media type
"application/wsdl+xml" for use with WSDL 2.0 documents.
The registration will be requested on behalf
of the W3C Web Services Description Working Group.
WSDL 2.0 documents are used to describe Web services.
The specification of the WSDL 2.0 language itself
is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20 .
This media type definition appears in
http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20#ietf-draft , which will
be updated as necessary.  (The version below is the most
recent.)

This proposed registration is for community review and
will be submitted to the IESG for review, approval, and
registration with IANA at a later stage.

The Last Call period for WSDL 2.0 ends 4 October 2004.
However, because of this late notification, the deadline
for comments on the media type registration has been
extended to 18 October 2004.

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To: ietf-types@iana.org 
Subject: Registration of media type application/wsdl+xml

Type name:
	application

Subtype name:
	wsdl+xml

Required parameters:
	none

Optional parameters:
	charset
		This parameter has identical semantics
		to the charset parameter of the
		"application/xml" media type as specified
		in [RFC 3023] 
		( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt ).

Encoding considerations:
	Identical to those of "application/xml" as
	described in [RFC 3023] 
	( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt )
	section 3.2, as applied
	to the WSDL document infoset.

Restrictions on usage:
	none

Security considerations:
	This media type uses the "+xml" convention.
	It shares the same security considerations as
	described in [RFC 3023] 
	( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt )
	section 10.

Interoperability considerations:
	There are no known interoperability issues.

Published specification:
	[WSDL 2.0 Core Language] 
	( http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20 ),
	[WSDL 2.0 Predefined Extensions] 
	( http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-extensions ),
	and [WSDL 2.0 Bindings]
	( http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-bindings ).

Applications which use this media type:
	No known applications currently use this media
	type.

Additional information:

	Magic number(s):
		In general, the same as for application/xml
		[RFC 3023] 
		( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt ).
		In particular, the XML root
		element of the returned object will be
		<wsdl:description>, where "wsdl" as any
		namespace prefix that maps to a WSDL 2.0
		namespace URI, as defined in [WSDL 2.0
		Core Language]
		( http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20 ).

	File extension(s):
		wsdl

	Macintosh File Type Code(s):
		WSDL

	Base URI:
		As specified in [RFC 3023]
		( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt )
		section 6.

	Fragment identifiers:
		As specified in [WSDL 2.0 FragIDs].

Person & email address to contact for further information:
	David Booth <dbooth@w3.org>

Intended usage:
	COMMON

Author/Change controller:
	The WSDL 2.0 specification set is a work product
	of the World Wide Web Consortium's Web Service
	Description Working Group [WSDL 2.0 WG]. The W3C
	has change control over these specifications.

References:

[RFC 3023]
	IETF "RFC 3023: XML Media Types", M. Murata,
	S. St. Laurent, D. Kohn, July 1998. (See
	http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3023.txt .)

[WSDL 2.0 Core Language]
	Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version
	2.0 Part 1: Core Language, R. Chinnici, M. Gudgin,
	J-J. Moreau, S. Weerawarana, Editors. World Wide
	Web Consortium, 3 August 2004. This version
	of the "Web Services Description Language
	(WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 1: Core Language"
	Specification is available is available at
	http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-20040803 . The
	latest version of "Web Services Description
	Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 1: Core Language"
	is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20 .

[WSDL 2.0 FragIDs]
	WSDL 2.0 Fragment Identifiers.	This is
	a subsection of [WSDL 2.0 Core Language]
	above.	The latest version is available at
	http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20/#frag-ids

[WSDL 2.0 Predefined Extensions]
	Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version
	2.0 Part 2: Predefined Extensions, M. Gudgin,
	A. Lewis, and J. Schlimmer, Editors. World
	Wide Web Consortium, 3 August 2004. This
	version of the "Web Services Description
	Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 2: Predefined
	Extensions" Specification is available at
	http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-extensions-20040803 .
	The latest version of "Web Services
	Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part
	2: Predefined Extensions" is available at
	http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-extensions .

[WSDL 2.0 Bindings]
	Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
	Version 2.0 Part 3: Bindings, H. Haas, P. Le
	Hégaret, J-J. Moreau, D. Orchard, J. Schlimmer,
	Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 3 August
	2004. This version of the "Web Services
	Description Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part
	3: Bindings" Specification is available at
	http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/WD-wsdl20-bindings-20040803 .
	The latest version of "Web Services Description
	Language (WSDL) Version 2.0 Part 3: Bindings" is
	available at http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl20-bindings .

[WSDL 2.0 WG]
	The W3C Web Services Description Working Group.
	Information about this Working Group is available
	at http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/desc/

[XML 1.0]
	Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
	(Second Edition), T. Bray, J. Paoli,
	C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, and E. Maler,
	Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, 10
	February 1998, revised 6 October 2000. This
	version of the XML 1.0 Recommendation is
	http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006 . The
	latest version of XML 1.0 is available at
	http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml .

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The proposal above was prepared following instructions at
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-freed-media-type-reg-01.txt ,
and further instructions at
http://www.w3.org/2002/06/registering-mediatype.html ,
since this is a media type from W3C.


-- 

David Booth
W3C Fellow / Hewlett-Packard

Received on Monday, 4 October 2004 16:06:08 UTC