Dear all, Still going through the payment protocol specifications... the MIME types in BIP0071 aren't IANA registered, and honestly look unlikely to be accepted if they were submitted as-is.
Latest RFC on media type registration is RFC 6838, which very strictly restricts what can go in the default "application/" namespace. Essentially they'd want it to be an ISO standard or similar. There are vendor namespaces, which look much more feasible (this is how Powerpoint 2007 ended up as "application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation"), but would be quite a dramatic change to BIP0071. What's the general feeling on this? Personally I'm in favour of following the registration process, so register a Bitcoin vendor namespace with IANA, then allocate MIME types such as: application/vnd.bitcoin.payment.request application/vnd.bitcoin.payment.payment application/vnd.bitcoin.payment.ack Thoughts? Ross ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start Your Social Network Today - Download eXo Platform Build your Enterprise Intranet with eXo Platform Software Java Based Open Source Intranet - Social, Extensible, Cloud Ready Get Started Now And Turn Your Intranet Into A Collaboration Platform http://p.sf.net/sfu/ExoPlatform _______________________________________________ Bitcoin-development mailing list Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
