The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Additional Media Type Structured Syntax Suffixes' (draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-suffix-regs-08.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Applications Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Barry Leiba and Pete Resnick. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-suffix-regs/ Technical Summary A content media type name sometimes includes partitioned meta- information distinguish by a Structured Syntax, to permit noting an attribute of the media as a suffix to the name. This document defines several Structured Syntax Suffixes for use with media type registrations. In particular, it defines and registers the "+json", "+ber", "+der", "+fastinfoset", "+wbxml" and "+zip" Structured Syntax Suffixes, and updates the "+xml" Message Type Structured Syntax Suffix registration. Working Group Summary This document was forked from draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs, which is now in the RFC Editor queue (waiting on this one). This was done in plain view of the working group and thus comes as no surprise, and the content had working group consensus prior to the document being fissioned. There were no objections to the separation action. Review of the document post-separation was limited to a few reviewers. There was some question as to the utility of media type suffixes in general, but consensus is that we are past the point of that question being an important one. Because this was separated from media-type-regs, which is a BCP, this was processed as a BCP. It is normatively referenced from that document and includes text (Section 2) that needs to be considered when reading media-type-regs with suffixes in mind. The GenART review during last call pointed out that Informational is fine, and its target status should be adjusted by the IESG according to its judgment. Document Quality Media type suffixes are not a new concept. This document merely formalizes their existence and establishes an IANA registry and update procedures to track them. The media type registration Designated Expert has been involved in the process of creating this document. There are no concerns about the adequacy of review. Personnel Murray Kucherawy is the Document Shepherd. Barry Leiba is the responsible Area Director.
