Request for review of media type from draft-ietf-keyprov-pskc-05.txt

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Polk, William T. wrote:
>Please review the following media type registration excerpted from
>draft-ietf-keyprov-pskc-05.txt, which is currently in IETF Last Call.

>12.1.  Content-type registration for 'application/pskc+xml'
>
>   This specification requests the registration of a new MIME type
>   according to the procedures of RFC 4288 [RFC4288] and guidelines in
>   RFC 3023 [RFC3023].
>
>   MIME media type name:  application

This is based on an obsolete template, the template from RFC 4288 should
be used instead (some field names are different).

>   MIME subtype name:  pskc+xml
>
>   Mandatory parameters:  none
>
>   Optional parameters:  charset
>
>      Indicates the character encoding of enclosed XML.
>
>   Encoding considerations:  Uses XML, which can employ 8-bit
>      characters, depending on the character encoding used.  See RFC
>      3023 [RFC3023], Section 3.2.

As per RFC 3023, section 7.1:

   Registrations for new XML-based media types under top-level types
   other than "text" SHOULD, in specifying the charset parameter and
   encoding considerations, define them as: "Same as [charset parameter
   / encoding considerations] of application/xml as specified in RFC
   3023."

>   Security considerations:  This content type is designed to carry PSKC
>      protocol payloads.

This should probably include a reference to the security considerations
section in the draft.

>   Additional information:
>
>      Magic Number:  None
>
>      File Extension:  .pskcxml
>
>      Macintosh file type code:  'TEXT'
>
>   Personal and email address for further information:  Philip Hoyer,
>      Philip.Hoyer at actividentity.com

The usual rendering here is "Name <email>".
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