The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'XML Media Types' <draft-murata-xml-09.txt> as a Proposed Standard. This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Patrik Faltstrom and Ned Freed. Technical Summary This document is an update of RFC 2376. It standardizes five media types -- text/xml, application/xml, text/xml-external-parsed-entity, application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd -- for use in exchanging network entities that are related to the Extensible Markup Language (XML). This document also standardizes a convention (using the suffix '+xml') for naming media types outside of these five types when those media types represent XML entities. Major differences from RFC 2376 are (1) the addition of text/xml-external-parsed-entity, application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd, (2) the '+xml' suffix convention (which also updates the RFC 2048 registration process), and (3) the discussion of "utf-16le" and "utf-16be". Working Group Summary Discussions about this memo has occurred on a number of mailing lists, including [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] There appears to be consensus for this update of RFC 2376. Protocol Quality Ned Freed has reviewed the specification for the IESG.
