If you would like to register a MIME type with somebody, anybody at all, then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Assigned_Numbers_Authority is probably the right place to do so. They don’t really deal with file extensions, besides saying that registrations should include a few commonly used example extensions from one or more platforms, alongside “Macintosh File Type Code(s)”. The “commonly used” implies to me that you had better start using the proposed file extension, commonly, before proposing it for standardization. But who knows.
In practice though, registration with IANA accomplishes nothing, besides making people feel better about having gone through the proper channels. What matters is how software uses those registrations. For example, text/jscript and text/livescript are both accepted by web browsers as denoting JavaScript, but are not registered with IANA. If making people feel better is the goal here though, to alleviate “expressed concern,” by all means go through the IANA registration process. From: es-discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bradley Meck Sent: Monday, January 25, 2016 23:08 To: es-discuss <[email protected]> Subject: File Type for Module Goal Unclear on the right place to ask for this, and I am now ending up on es-discuss. Node's support for ES modules would ideally be non-ambiguous and not require parsing to determine the goal of a file ( https://github.com/bmeck/node-eps/blob/es6-module/002-es6-modules.md#determining-if-source-is-an-es6-module ). So far we have been met with RTFM it feels like. We were looking at getting a file extension added to Node for such things, some of the contributors have expressed concern about using an unregistered file type. I am wondering if this is the right place to find the person to get a `+module` suffix added to `application/javascript` so we can officially register a `.jsm` or `.es` file type. Places we have been to so far (with confusing directions on where to go from there): * TC39 * WHATWG Bradley
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