MIME media types in RFC 4047

[ned.freed at mrochek.com]

> We have been informed that RFC 4047 is published.

> RFC 4047 defines two new top-level MIME media types:
> image/fits
> application/fits

> The IANA web pages
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/
> have not been updated to indicate that publication
> has occurred.

> Do the authors of the RFC need to make any further explicit request to
> the IANA, or should we simply await the next update?

The update is supposed to be done automatically, and in theory it is supposed
to happen before the RFC comes out.

I suggest pinging IANA to find out why the update hasn't occurred.

				Ned