[Bitcoin-development] BIP0071 media type registration with IANA
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
Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0071 media type registration with IANA
Bitcoin is not a vendor, so I doubt that would work. I doubt we should spend any time on this. The chance of a string collision is extremely low. The current mime types are fine. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Ross Nicoll j...@jrn.me.uk wrote: 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 -- 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
Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0071 media type registration with IANA
Am 2014-04-26 22:17, schrieb Mike Hearn: Bitcoin is not a vendor, so I doubt that would work. By my interpretation of RFC 6838, the Bitcoin Foundation or even Gavin himself could register a vendor tree for Bitcoin. In the case of the foundation registering, getting the subtree named vdn.bitcoin should be no problem. I doubt we should spend any time on this. The chance of a string collision is extremely low. The current mime types are fine. It's mostly about the good feeling of having followed the rules and proper procedures, I doubt that there is a difference in practice -- 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
