On 8/3/11 1:54 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 8/3/11 1:49 PM, Donald Eastlake wrote: >> Why can't we get informative explanations of what problem non-WG >> mailing lists are trying to address? >>> >>> Purpose: This list is for discussion of IANA Registry issues to >>> result in Happy IETF, Happy W3C, and Happy IANA. > > Various folks have found it difficult to do things like register new > media types. There's been discussion among a small group of people to > streamline those processes (getting ADs out of the way, improving the > interface to IANA, etc.). The list started out as a small, private > design team and is now being opened to wider participation. To be 100% clear, the difficulties that some folks have reported are decidedly *not* limited to media types. Those working on the happiana "design team" are looking into the possibility of "bis" documents regarding registration procedures for URI schemes (RFC 4395), link relations (RFC 5988), media types (RFC 4288), header fields (RFC 3864) primarily for HTTP, and perhaps others. It might be that some of the reported difficulties are more a matter of perception than of reality. It might be that the relevant Area Directors (mostly in apps) need to get out of the way so that SDOs wanting to register things in the standards tree can interface directly with IANA. And so on. If you are are interested in these issues, please join the discussion on the happiana@xxxxxxxx list: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/happiana Thanks. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf