Lloyd Wood wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jun 2002, John Stracke wrote: > > >>>>Yesterday I participated in a W3C/IETF coordination >>>>call where one of the topics was about the registration >>>>of mime types defined by W3C Recommendations. A summary >>>>of the meeting will be available soon to the W3C Membership. >>> >>>what about the IETF membership? >> >>Why would the process be any different for the W3C than for anybody >>else? It is perfectly possible to have a MIME registration RFC that >>references a non-IETF document for the actual syntax of the format. >>For example, see RFC-3240. > > > The W3C members pay good money to see that their formats become > standards, dammit. > > To be clear, I am asking why the summary of the meeting will only be > made available to the (closed, fee-paying) W3C membership. Lloyd, I do not know whether there will be a public summary of the meeting. Joseph Reagle has captured in a public document [1] the practical steps W3C WGs should take to register a MIME type with IANA. - Ian [1] http://www.w3.org/2002/06/registering-mediatype -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447