[IPP] Registration of Chinese Media Size Names

[IPP] Registration of Chinese Media Size Names

Michael Sweet msweet at msweet.org
Sun Nov 30 16:05:05 UTC 2025


Christoph,

> On Nov 30, 2025, at 10:20 AM, Christoph Päper <christoph.paeper at crissov.de> wrote:
> 
> Just for the record, the English Wikipedia article Paper size has a section dedicated to those Chinese D sizes and notes that D0 through D6 are also known by power-of-two aliases 1K through 64K, although they differ from other traditional East-Asian paper sizes that hare those designations.
> 
> I see these size names at the IANA registry already, but the linked reference [IPP-20250919] <https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/ipp/registrations/vendor-ipp-20250919.txt> (which would be equivalent to the mail I am responding to) leads to a 404 error.

Sorry, looks like I forgot to upload it.  Should be working now.

> I also noted that most references labeled [PWG5101.1] there lead to <https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-pwgmsn21-20230915-5101.1.pdf>, while some still link to <https://ftp.pwg.org/pub/pwg/candidates/cs-pwgmsn20-20130328-5101.1.pdf>.

OK, made a note of it and will fix that when I next update the registry.

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Michael Sweet



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