Request for review of media types in draft-ietf-pkix-tamp

Bjoern Hoehrmann derhoermi at gmx.net
Wed Apr 21 12:21:49 CEST 2010


* Polk, William T. wrote:
>Appendix B.  MIME Media Type Registrations
>
>   Eleven MIME media type registrations are provided in this appendix.
>   As noted in Section 2, in all cases TAMP messages are encapsulated
>   within ContentInfo structures.  Signed messages are additionally
>   encapsulated within a SignedData structure.

This should include a brief discussion why eleven types are needed.

>B.1.  application/tamp-status-query
>
>   To: ietf-types at iana.org
>
>   Subject: Registration of MIME media type application/
>   tamp-status-query

These lines are not really meant to be included in RFCs.

>   MIME media type name: application

(Alfred HÎnes already commented on this.)

>   Required parameters: None
>
>   Optional parameters: None
>
>   Encoding considerations: Binary

(This should probably be "binary" instead.)

>   Intended usage: COMMON

It might be more accurate to use "LIMITED USE" here.
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