Re: [Openexr-user] MIME type registration

[Drew Hess]

Thanks for the info.

You're probably right.  Once the tiled format is tested and "baked," we 
can write up a formal spec and submit an RFC.  It's probably a good idea 
regardless of whether we get a MIME type or not.


-dwh-


 On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Brad Hards wrote:

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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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