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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 2015-02-09, at 3:43 PM, Ira McDonald <<a href="mailto:blueroofmusic@gmail.com" class="">blueroofmusic@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">FYI - Smith - you might want to look at this WG and this first new top-level<br class="">MIME type in a decade (for various standard archive formats).<br class=""><br class="">Cheer,<br class="">- Ira<br class=""><div class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr" class=""><br class=""><div style="display:inline" class=""></div><div style="display:inline" class=""></div><div style="display:inline" class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""></div><div class=""></div></div></div></div>
<br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">The IESG</b> <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:iesg-secretary@ietf.org" class="">iesg-secretary@ietf.org</a>></span><br class="">Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:49 PM<br class="">Subject: [arcmedia] WG Action: Formed 'Archive' Top-Level Media Type (arcmedia)<br class="">To: IETF-Announce <<a href="mailto:ietf-announce@ietf.org" class="">ietf-announce@ietf.org</a>><br class="">Cc: arcmedia WG <<a href="mailto:arcmedia@ietf.org" class="">arcmedia@ietf.org</a>><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">A new IETF working group has been formed in the Applications Area. For<br class="">
additional information please contact the Area Directors or the WG Chair.<br class="">
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Please note that a co-chair will be added soon.<br class="">
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'Archive' Top-Level Media Type (arcmedia)<br class="">
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Current Status: Proposed WG<br class="">
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Chairs:<br class="">
Dave Crocker <<a href="mailto:dcrocker@bbiw.net" class="">dcrocker@bbiw.net</a>><br class="">
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Assigned Area Director:<br class="">
Barry Leiba <<a href="mailto:barryleiba@computer.org" class="">barryleiba@computer.org</a>><br class="">
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Address: <a href="mailto:arcmedia@ietf.org" class="">arcmedia@ietf.org</a><br class="">
To Subscribe: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/arcmedia" target="_blank" class="">http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/arcmedia</a><br class="">
Archive: <a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/arcmedia" target="_blank" class="">http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/arcmedia</a><br class="">
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Charter:<br class="">
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Archive formats are used to aggregate multiple files and other data into<br class="">
a single object, often with data compression and/or confidentiality<br class="">
protection (encryption). This working group will create an "archive"<br class="">
top-level media type.<br class="">
<br class="">
There has been recent work to register media types for archive formats<br class="">
such as .tar (a POSIX standard format). There are already several<br class="">
similar media types for archive formats, such as .gzip. and .zip. (see,<br class="">
for example, RFC6713), all of which are registered under the top-level<br class="">
media type "application".<br class="">
<br class="">
We create top-level media types only rarely, only with Standards Track<br class="">
RFCs, and only when one or more media types get special (or common, in<br class="">
the case of more than one) handling that does not fit under an existing<br class="">
top-level media type. RFC6838 defines this process.<br class="">
<br class="">
The working group will use draft-seantek-kerwin-arcmedia-type as its<br class="">
initial input for a Standards Track document that creates a top-level<br class="">
media type for archive formats. The document will specify rules for<br class="">
registering subtypes under that new top-level type, considering at a<br class="">
minimum the issue of type suffixes, fragment identifiers, and<br class="">
internationalization. The W3C TAG work on packaging and archives,<br class="">
currently in progress, will also be considered.<br class="">
<br class="">
Either in that same document or in one of more follow-on documents, it<br class="">
will produce an initial set of registrations under the new top-level<br class="">
media type.<br class="">
<br class="">
The main document will include an Implementation Status section,<br class="">
described by RFC6982, to record known projects that will either produce<br class="">
or consume content using the new media type. If by the first milestone<br class="">
there appears to be no implementations of the new media type expected,<br class="">
the working group will conclude, without having produced any RFCs.<br class="">
<br class="">
No other work is in scope for this working group.<br class="">
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Milestones:<br class="">
Jun 2015 - Base document<br class="">
Dec 2015 - Registrations document(s) (if separate from the base)<br class="">
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