TAG Product: MIME architecture for the Web

Product: MIME architecture for the Web

Proposed Revised Goals, etc.

Larry Masinter has sent an email suggesting that work on http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-masinter-mime-web-info be de-emphasized or abandoned, and that we should instead focus on:

Reviewing and updating in general the processes around getting items into IANA registries, including media types and URI schemes. This work is ongoing https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/happiana; See http://www.w3.org/wiki/FriendlyRegistryProcess for one summary of issues, status, and possible resolutions.
specific update to the Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-freed-media-type-regs
the "MIME sniffing" document in the websec working group http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-websec-mime-sniff And there are W3C documents:
TAG finding on Internet Media types: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/2002/0129-mime
W3C guidelines on registering types: http://www.w3.org/2002/06/registering-mediatype. The TAG product should involve review, participation in, and suggested updates to those documents. If necessary, we can also publish a new TAG finding or additional Internet drafts, or other actions, but I think our first priority and schedule should be toward reviewing and updating those documents. In particular, it's unclear whether additional versions of
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-masinter-mime-web-info will be helpful.

The TAG expects to discuss this change of focus at the planned 13-15 September F2F in Edinburgh, UK. If the proposed change of direction is accepted, this product page will be updated accordingly.

The goal of this work is to improve the compatibility between Mime as specified and used for the World Wide Web, and MIME as specified and used for email and other purposes.

Success criteria

The TAG will publish (or ensure that others have published) analyses explaining the areas in which use of Mime on the Web is proving problematic, and will suggest concrete steps for resolving problems where they are found.

The TAG will liase with the IETF and other concerned parties to resolve these issues

The TAG, working with others as appropriate, will document the solutions that are agreed by the community, and will highlight areas in which unresolved problems remain.

TAG Issues, Actions and Tracker Product Page

Issues

ISSUE-1: Should W3C WGs define their own media types?

ISSUE-9: Why does the Web use mime types and not URIs?

ISSUE-66: The role of MIME in the Web Architecture

Actions

ACTION-233: Report back from IETF/HTML liason meeting in March regarding MIME type override

ACTION-424: Start discussion on www-tag about additional finding/web architecture around MIME types in web architecture, updating existing findings (Larry Masinter)

ACTION-425: Draft updated MIME finding(s), with help from DanA, based on www-tag discussion (Larry Masinter)

ACTION-458: Schedule discussion of followup actions for TAG to coordinate with IETF on MIME-type related activities (Noah Mendelsohn)

ACTION-472: Update the mime-draft based on comments & review (Larry Masinter)

ACTION-543: Propose addition to MIME/Web draft to discuss sem-web use of fragids not grounded in media type (Jeni Tennison)

ACTION-526: Do first draft product stuff for MIME and related core web mechanisms (Noah Mendelsohn)

Product: MIME architecture for the Web

Proposed Revised Goals, etc.

Goals

Success criteria

Key deliverables with dates:

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TAG Issues, Actions and Tracker Product Page

Issues

Actions

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