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Register MIME type application/car with IANA #368

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olizilla opened this issue Jun 2, 2021 · 1 comment
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Register MIME type application/car with IANA #368

olizilla opened this issue Jun 2, 2021 · 1 comment

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olizilla commented Jun 2, 2021

It would be useful to have a registered mime type for CAR files for use in web applications that want to accept user provided CARs. nft.storage is already using application/car for CARs. I'd like to let users provide a specific mime type when they want to upload a CAR.

Note: Registrations in the standards tree must be approved by the IESG or must correspond to a formal publication by a recognized standards body.

🤔 next up, how to become a recognised standards body.

see: the other issue about registering mime types #102
see: the form to fill in https://www.iana.org/form/media-types

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olizilla commented Jun 2, 2021

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6838#section-3.1

3.1. Standards Tree
The standards tree is intended for types of general interest to the
Internet community. Registrations in the standards tree MUST be
either:

  1. in the case of registrations associated with IETF specifications,
    approved directly by the IESG, or

  2. registered by a recognized standards-related organization using
    the "Specification Required" IANA registration policy [RFC5226]
    (which implies Expert Review).
    ...
    In the second case, the IESG makes a one-time decision on whether the
    registration submitter represents a recognized standards-related
    organization; after that, a Media Types Reviewer (Designated Expert
    or a group of Designated Experts) performs the Expert Review as
    specified in this document. Subsequent submissions from the same
    source do not involve the IESG. The format MUST be described by a
    formal standards specification produced by the submitting standards-
    related organization.

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