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Hi,<br><br>FYI - Smith - you might want to look at this WG and this first new top-level<br>MIME type in a decade (for various standard archive formats).<br><br>Cheer,<br>- Ira<br><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div><div style="display:inline"></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">The IESG</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iesg-secretary@ietf.org">iesg-secretary@ietf.org</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:49 PM<br>Subject: [arcmedia] WG Action: Formed 'Archive' Top-Level Media Type (arcmedia)<br>To: IETF-Announce <<a href="mailto:ietf-announce@ietf.org">ietf-announce@ietf.org</a>><br>Cc: arcmedia WG <<a href="mailto:arcmedia@ietf.org">arcmedia@ietf.org</a>><br><br><br>A new IETF working group has been formed in the Applications Area. For<br>
additional information please contact the Area Directors or the WG Chair.<br>
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Please note that a co-chair will be added soon.<br>
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'Archive' Top-Level Media Type (arcmedia)<br>
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Current Status: Proposed WG<br>
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Chairs:<br>
Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dcrocker@bbiw.net">dcrocker@bbiw.net</a>><br>
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Assigned Area Director:<br>
Barry Leiba <<a href="mailto:barryleiba@computer.org">barryleiba@computer.org</a>><br>
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Charter:<br>
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Archive formats are used to aggregate multiple files and other data into<br>
a single object, often with data compression and/or confidentiality<br>
protection (encryption). This working group will create an "archive"<br>
top-level media type.<br>
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There has been recent work to register media types for archive formats<br>
such as .tar (a POSIX standard format). There are already several<br>
similar media types for archive formats, such as .gzip. and .zip. (see,<br>
for example, RFC6713), all of which are registered under the top-level<br>
media type "application".<br>
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We create top-level media types only rarely, only with Standards Track<br>
RFCs, and only when one or more media types get special (or common, in<br>
the case of more than one) handling that does not fit under an existing<br>
top-level media type. RFC6838 defines this process.<br>
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The working group will use draft-seantek-kerwin-arcmedia-type as its<br>
initial input for a Standards Track document that creates a top-level<br>
media type for archive formats. The document will specify rules for<br>
registering subtypes under that new top-level type, considering at a<br>
minimum the issue of type suffixes, fragment identifiers, and<br>
internationalization. The W3C TAG work on packaging and archives,<br>
currently in progress, will also be considered.<br>
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Either in that same document or in one of more follow-on documents, it<br>
will produce an initial set of registrations under the new top-level<br>
media type.<br>
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The main document will include an Implementation Status section,<br>
described by RFC6982, to record known projects that will either produce<br>
or consume content using the new media type. If by the first milestone<br>
there appears to be no implementations of the new media type expected,<br>
the working group will conclude, without having produced any RFCs.<br>
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No other work is in scope for this working group.<br>
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Milestones:<br>
Jun 2015 - Base document<br>
Dec 2015 - Registrations document(s) (if separate from the base)<br>
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