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

Carl Wallace CWallace at cygnacom.com
Wed Apr 21 13:54:46 CEST 2010


Thanks.  These changes have all been made and will be submitted as a -08 version as soon as practical.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alfred HÎnes [mailto:ah at TR-Sys.de]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2010 4:29 AM
> To: william.polk at nist.gov; draft-ietf-pkix-tamp at tools.ietf.org
> Cc: ietf-types at alvestrand.no
> Subject: Re: Request for review of media types in draft-ietf-pkix-tamp
> 
> Please make sure draft-ietf-pkix-tamp follows BCP 13, RFC 4288.
> (It is on the level of the obsoleted predecessor of that memo.)
> 
> RFC 4288 explains at lenght why the use of "MIME" in the context
> of Media Types is a bad idea, since those are being used at large
> outside the original eMail context of MIME (the second "M" in "MIME"),
> in particular in HTTP (and SIP) context.
> 
> So please delete all instances of the word "MIME" from Appendix B
> and use the updated registration template presented in RFC 4288
> throughout the Appendix!
> In particular, use plain "media type" / "media subtype" in the prose
> and "type name" / "subtype name" in the registration clauses.
> 
> Question:
>   Are the file extensions actually to be given in upper case?
> 
> 
> Kind regards,
>   Alfred HÎnes.
> 
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