[media-types] Re: [IANA #1430277] text/org registratio n request

> On 24 Sep 2025, at 18:00, Amanda Baber via RT <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Orie, Alexey,
> 
> The applicant agrees that text/x-org should be added.

Perfect.
> 
> Amanda
> 
>> On Tue Sep 23 13:12:21 2025, [email protected] wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Should we add text/x-org as a deprecated alias?
>> 
>> https://github.com/search?q=text%2Forg&type=code
>> https://github.com/search?q=text%2Fx-org&type=code
>> 
>> OS
>> 
>> On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 9:35 PM Amanda Baber via RT <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Alexey,
>>> 
>>> The requester writes, "That’s a typo. It should be text/org."
>>> 
>>> I'll send the IESG a request to approve text/org at this week's telechat.
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> Amanda
>>> 
>>> On Mon Sep 22 16:16:51 2025, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Hi Amanda,
>>>> 
>>>> I think this is a sensible request to grandfather. One question below
>>>> about the media type name:
>>>> 
>>>> On 20/09/2025 01:26, Amanda Baber via RT wrote:
>>>>> Hi Alexey,
>>>>> 
>>>>> We have a request to grandfather the media type described below.
>>>>> Could you review this by October 3rd and let us know whether you
>>>>> would recommend that the IESG approve this directly?
>>>>> 
>>>>> If not, would the only options be for the applicant to add the "vnd."
>>>>> prefix or try to publish an independent-stream RFC?
>>>>> 
>>>>> The requester writes, "Org-mode was created in 2003 and had been part
>>>>> of GNU/Emacs since 2006. Its latest release was Aug 9, 2025."
>>>>> 
>>>>> thanks,
>>>>> Amanda
>>>>> 
>>>>> =====
>>>>> 
>>>>> Name: Jeffrey Gipson
>>>>> 
>>>>> Email: [email protected]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Media type name: text
>>>>> 
>>>>> Media subtype name: orgmode
>>>> Looking at <https://orgmode.org/> it says that the defacto name is
>>>> "text/org", which differs from the above. I would like to know if this
>>>> is just a typo in the registration request or on the web page. Or
>>>> should
>>>> both be registered and one of them becomes an alias?
>>>>> Required parameters: N/A
>>>>> 
>>>>> Optional parameters: N/A
>>>>> 
>>>>> Encoding considerations: 7bit
>>>>> 
>>>>> Security considerations: It is possible for emacs org-mode documents
>>>>> to set unsafe buffer variables or execute elisp upon opening a
>>>>> document. These conditions do not exist in default configurations,
>>>>> but must be explicitly enabled in-advance in the emacs configuration.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Interoperability considerations: org-mode is a plain text markup
>>>>> format (similar to markdown). It can be viewed and edited in any text
>>>>> editor or viewer.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Published specification: https://orgmode.org/org.html
>>>>> 
>>>>> Applications which use this media: emacs and other syntax-aware text
>>>>> editors may provide active links and formatting for org-mode texts.
>>>>> Any text editor may read and write org-mode documents.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Fragment identifier considerations: N/A
>>>>> 
>>>>> Restrictions on usage: There are no restrictions for org-mode
>>>>> documents.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Provisional registration? (standards tree only): No
>>>>> 
>>>>> Additional information:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. Deprecated alias names for this type: N/A
>>>>> 2. Magic number(s): N/A
>>>>> 3. File extension(s): .org
>>>>> 4. Macintosh file type code: N/A
>>>>> 5. Object Identifiers: N/A
>>>>> 
>>>>> Person to contact for further information:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 1. Name: Jeffrey Gipson
>>>>> 2. Email: [email protected]
>>>>> 
>>>>> Intended usage: COMMON
>>>>> 
>>>>> Author/Change controller: https://tracker.orgmode.org/
>>>> 
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Alexey
>>> 
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