[media-types] Re: [Ext] Re: Standards tree registratio n and RFC 6838

Thanks, Martin. I've adjusted slightly to:

* At the minimum, one subtype (not including a potential 'example' subtype) is described. A top-level type without any subtype serves no purpose. The only exception is the 'example' top-level type, which disallows registration of subtypes.

Cheers,


> On 6 Oct 2025, at 6:16 pm, Martin J. Dürst <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello Amanda, Mark, others,
> 
> On 2025-09-12 13:56, Amanda Baber wrote:
>> Hi Mark,
>> Sorry about the late review here. The community formats section looks pretty clear to me, but some notes/questions about other sections:
>> Section 3.1.1:
>> This section's last bullet point says that the example top-level type has an "example" subtype, but RFC 4735 told us not to register that (although it did have us register an example subtype for the other then-extant top-level types). I have no idea whether this would be confusing to anyone outside of IANA.
> This is text taken over verbatim from RFC 9694 (Section 2.1), and so essentially my bad, sorry. I don't have the time to dig further to find out where this might have been coming from.
> 
> I propose to change the bullet to read as follows:
> 
> *  At a minimum, one subtype (not including a potential 'example'
>   subtype) MUST be described.  A top-level type without any subtypes
>   serves no purpose.  The only exception is the 'example' top-level
>   type, with no registered subtypes.
> 
> Please take this as a Last Call comment on draft-ietf-mediaman-6838bis-06.
> 
> Regards,   Martin.

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