Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
RFC 6838
Document | Type |
RFC - Best Current Practice
(January 2013; No errata)
Obsoletes RFC 4288
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Authors | Ned Freed , John Klensin , Tony Hansen | ||
Last updated | 2015-10-14 | ||
Replaces | draft-freed-media-type-regs | ||
Stream | Internent Engineering Task Force (IETF) | ||
Formats | plain text html pdf htmlized (tools) htmlized bibtex | ||
Reviews | |||
Stream | WG state | Submitted to IESG for Publication | |
Document shepherd | Murray Kucherawy | ||
Shepherd write-up | Show (last changed 2012-05-07) | ||
IESG | IESG state | RFC 6838 (Best Current Practice) | |
Action Holders |
(None)
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Consensus Boilerplate | Unknown | ||
Telechat date | |||
Responsible AD | Barry Leiba | ||
Send notices to | (None) |
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) N. Freed Request for Comments: 6838 Oracle BCP: 13 J. Klensin Obsoletes: 4288 Category: Best Current Practice T. Hansen ISSN: 2070-1721 AT&T Laboratories January 2013 Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures Abstract This document defines procedures for the specification and registration of media types for use in HTTP, MIME, and other Internet protocols. Status of This Memo This memo documents an Internet Best Current Practice. This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). It represents the consensus of the IETF community. It has received public review and has been approved for publication by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Further information on BCPs is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741. Information about the current status of this document, any errata, and how to provide feedback on it may be obtained at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6838. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified BSD License. Freed, et al. Best Current Practice [Page 1] RFC 6838 Media Type Registration January 2013 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.1. Historical Note . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.2. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 2. Media Type Registration Preliminaries . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. Registration Trees and Subtype Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.1. Standards Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3.2. Vendor Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.3. Personal or Vanity Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.4. Unregistered x. Tree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.5. Additional Registration Trees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4. Registration Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 4.1. Functionality Requirement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2. Naming Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 4.2.1. Text Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 4.2.2. Image Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.2.3. Audio Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.2.4. Video Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4.2.5. Application Media Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.2.6. Multipart and Message Media Types . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.2.7. Additional Top-Level Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.2.8. Structured Syntax Name Suffixes . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.2.9. Deprecated Aliases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.3. Parameter Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 4.4. Canonicalization and Format Requirements . . . . . . . . . 14 4.5. Interchange Recommendations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.6. Security Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 4.7. Requirements Specific to XML Media Types . . . . . . . . . 16 4.8. Encoding Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 4.9. Usage and Implementation Non-Requirements . . . . . . . . 17 4.10. Publication Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.11. Fragment Identifier Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 4.12. Additional Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5. Media Type Registration Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.1. Preliminary Community Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5.2. Submit Request to IANA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.2.1. Provisional Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 5.3. Review and Approval . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.4. Comments on Media Type Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.5. Change Procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 5.6. Registration Template . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22Show full document text