Registration of media type application/ttaf+xml

[David Singer]

For Mac OS 9 the file type was very important.  I suppose there may be people still running OS 9, but I really doubt they'll be at the avant-garde of handling TTML files :-)

On Aug 26, 2010, at 18:14 , Philippe Le Hegaret wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 17:44 -0700, David Singer wrote:
>> I would leave the Mac file type code blank, myself.  Or make it a text document (which it is).  We no longer register these, afaik, so...
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> as far as I know, RFC 4288 indicates:
> [[
> 4.11.  Additional Information
> 
>   Various sorts of optional information SHOULD be included in the
>   specification of a media type if it is available:
> [...]
>   o  File name extension(s) commonly used on one or more platforms to
>      indicate that some file contains a given media type.
> 
>   o  Mac OS File Type code(s) (4 octets) used to label files containing
>      a given media type.
> ]]
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4288.txt
> 
> So, I don't mind one way or another, but it seems to me RFC 4288 needs
> to be updated if we're going to drop the usage.
> 
> Philippe
> 
> 
> 

David Singer
Multimedia and Software Standards, Apple Inc.