Re: Registration status

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> 
> RFC 3023 states that for application/mathml+xml, "no content type has
> yet  been registered for MathML and so this media type should not be
> used until such registration has been completed." Similar statements are
> given for SVG, RDF, and XSLT.

However, the W3C Recommendation for SVG does define the image/svg+xml
MIME type and people have been using it for a year (since it changed
from image/svg-xml which was what the internet draft preceeding RFC 3023
used to say).

> What is the current status of these registrations? None of them have
> made it through the IANA registration. 

The registration for SVG is in development, but has not yet been sent to
IANA.

> At least none of them are listed
> at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/application/
> 
> Has anybody actually begun the process of registering these four types?

Yes, the W3C SVG WG is working on it. Discussion hinges on such details
as whether to allow/require/disallow a charset (which would be a first
for image/* and would require more detailed server setup) and an
analysis of security considerations.

-- 
Chris