Re: [Openexr-user] MIME type registration

[Brad Hards]

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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 07:38 am, Drew Hess wrote:
> I guess nobody ever replied to this.  Sounds like a good idea; how do we
> go about doing it?
There are two options for registration - the formal approach by raising the 
Internet Draft -> RFC; or just raising it as a vendor specific (presumably 
ILM).
Look at http://www.iana.org/cgi-bin/mediatypes.pl and some of the RFCs linked 
on that page (especially RFC 2048)

For the formal approach (what it would take to get image/exr). Basically there 
would need to be a formal description of the format. As an example, see RFC 
3302 for TIFF. They have an easy trick though - they refer out to the formal 
spec. RFC 2083 for PNG has the detailed spec.

Vendor (vnd.ilm.exr or something similar) is much less onerous - you just log 
it using the webpage form above.

Maybe we should do the vendor approach first, then when the file format is 
done, we go the ID->RFC approach.

Brad


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