need advice on registration for YAML format

[Ned Freed]

> Hi,

> currently there is no media type registered for YAML (see
> <http://yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html>). I'd like to change that.

> Two questions though:

> 1) YAML is a text format, but it has hardwired character sets, similar
> to application/json (detectable via the BOM). This means, it really
> needs to be registered under application/*, right?

Given that UTF-16 is being used, there really isn't an option - it has to go
under application.

> 2) yaml.org isn't a standards body recognized by the IETF. So, to get
> into the standards tree, the canonical solution would be to move the
> spec into an RFC, right?

Yes, although that may raise issues of who "owns" the format.

 An alternative would be the vendor tree
> (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288#section-3.2>). So would
> application/vnd.yamlorg.yaml make sense?

Yes, that's the alternative.

				Ned