[media-types] Re: [IANA #1453872] application/vnd.ju pyter registration request

Yes, that's fine.

-MSK

On Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 3:09 PM Sabrina Tanamal via RT <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Murray,
>
> We received the following response from the applicant:
>
> I got a reply and I have an email to the project as a whole now:
> [email protected]
>
> Can we use that?
>
> ====
>
> Let us know if this is good to go.
>
> Thanks,
> Sabrina
>
> On Mon Jul 20 15:46:23 2026, [email protected] wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2026 at 6:26 AM Amanda Baber via RT <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi Murray,
> > >
> > > > > > I am not involved directly in the project, although I know who
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > current project lead is, I am not willing to say that it is ok
> > > > > > to put
> > > > > > them down as direct contact for this.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Could we ask that person?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > The reason I want this registered, is that I am writing an RFC
> > > > > > where
> > > I
> > > > > > want to reference this specific mime type, and I noticed that
> > > > > > it was
> > > > > > possible to register mime types without direct involvement in
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > project.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > The RFC could do the registration instead, if you like, but you'll
> > > > face
> > > the
> > > > same question there if the contact offered is a URI rather than a
> > > > single
> > > > contact address.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > > But if it doesn't work in this specific case, as they do not
> > > > > > publish
> > > > > > email addresses for direct contact that I could find despite
> > > > > > considerable effort to find one, maybe the registration request
> > > > > > needs
> > > > > > to fail?
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > Amanda, what would IANA do here, or what guidance should we
> > > > provide?
> > > Given
> > > > a slate of people, would you try to contact all of them?  Pick one
> > > > at
> > > > random?  Pick the first one?  What if you get multiple answers that
> > > > don't
> > > > agree?  I'm inclined to say it should be a single email address,
> > > > but
> > > maybe
> > > > there are other precedents here we should observe.
> > >
> > > This is unusual, and I don't know that we've run into it. For the
> > > contact,
> > > at least, we really want an email address, whether it's for a person
> > > or a
> > > role ("Example Administrator, [email protected]") or a group of
> > > people.
> > > Their address will be obscured slightly in the registry (@ symbol
> > > automatically replaced with an ampersand), if that's a concern.
> > >
> > > If this were to state that any single member of that group could
> > > verify a
> > > change to the registration, that could work, although it's not ideal.
> > >
> >
> > I'm inclined to say this needs to be a single email address then (and
> > is it
> > too late to make sure 6838bis says so?) rather than a URI from which
> > you're
> > expected to select the right thing and hope you guessed correctly.
> >
> > -MSK
>
>

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