Problem with IANA MIME media types registry

[Chris Lilley]

On Monday, December 12, 2005, 3:58:40 PM, IANA wrote:

I> All,

I> I'll check on this today and see what needs to be done to get this fixed.

I think
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/index.html
got uploaded to http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html

I> Michelle Cotton
I> IANA
I>  

I> -----Original Message-----
I> From: Chris Lilley [mailto:chris at w3.org] 
I> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 12:30 AM
I> To: Bruce Lilly
I> Cc: webmaster at iana.org; iana at iana.org; ietf at ietf.org;
I> ietf-types at alvestrand.no
I> Subject: Re: Problem with IANA MIME media types registry

I> On Sunday, December 11, 2005, 3:39:58 PM, Bruce wrote:

BL>> [CC'd to IETF discussion list and ietf-types discussion list]

BL>> Hello,

BL>> Recent changes to the page at
BL>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html
BL>> accessed via the link from the IANA Assigned numbers page 
BL>> http://www.iana.org/numbers.html#M
BL>> have rendered the registry of assigned media types useless.
BL>> Prior to the recent change, the media types registry listed the 
BL>> assigned MIME top-level media types, viz. application, audio, image, 
BL>> message, model, multipart, text, and video.  Since the change, only 
BL>> the application top-level type is listed (audio, image, message, 
BL>> model, multipart, text, and video have vanished without a trace)

I> Or rather, become unlinked. For example
I> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/
I> is still there, just not linked anywhere.

I> I suspect its just an update glitch, but anyway....

BL>> and superfluous repetition of the application subtypes listed in 
BL>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application
BL>> has appeared (these of course are not top-level media types).

BL>> Could you please investigate what has gone awry and regenerate a 
BL>> page that provides top-level media types.

I> I agree, stable URIs for media types are very much needed.








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 Chris Lilley                    mailto:chris at w3.org
 Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
 W3C Graphics Activity Lead
 Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG