Fwd: Protocol Action: XML Media Types to Proposed Standard

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>To: IETF-Announce: ;
>Cc: RFC Editor <[email protected]>, IANA <[email protected]>
>Cc: Internet Architecture Board <[email protected]>
>From: The IESG <[email protected]>
>Subject: Protocol Action: XML Media Types to Proposed Standard
>Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 07:38:26 -0500
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>The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'XML Media Types'
><draft-murata-xml-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard.  This has been
>reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group.
>The IESG contact persons are Patrik Faltstrom and Ned Freed.
>
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>Technical Summary
> 
>This document is an update of RFC 2376. It standardizes five media
>types -- text/xml, application/xml, text/xml-external-parsed-entity,
>application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd --
>for use in exchanging network entities that are related to the
>Extensible Markup Language (XML). This document also standardizes a
>convention (using the suffix '+xml') for naming media types outside
>of these five types when those media types represent XML entities.
>
>Major differences from RFC 2376 are (1) the addition of
>text/xml-external-parsed-entity,
>application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd, (2)
>the '+xml' suffix convention (which also updates the RFC 2048
>registration process), and (3) the discussion of "utf-16le" and
>"utf-16be".
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>Working Group Summary
>
>Discussions about this memo has occurred on a number of mailing
>lists, including [email protected] and [email protected].
>There appears to be consensus for this update of RFC 2376.
>
>Protocol Quality
>
>Ned Freed has reviewed the specification for the IESG.
> 
Simon St.Laurent
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