Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0071 media type registration with IANA

[Mike Hearn]

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


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Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0071 media type registration with IANA

[Jannis Froese]

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

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