All,
I'll check on this today and see what needs to be done to get this fixed.
Michelle Cotton
IANA
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Lilley [mailto:chris(_at_)w3(_dot_)org]
Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 12:30 AM
To: Bruce Lilly
Cc: webmaster(_at_)iana(_dot_)org; iana(_at_)iana(_dot_)org;
ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org;
ietf-types(_at_)alvestrand(_dot_)no
Subject: Re: Problem with IANA MIME media types registry
On Sunday, December 11, 2005, 3:39:58 PM, Bruce wrote:
BL> [CC'd to IETF discussion list and ietf-types discussion list]
BL> Hello,
BL> Recent changes to the page at
BL> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html
BL> accessed via the link from the IANA Assigned numbers page
BL> http://www.iana.org/numbers.html#M
BL> have rendered the registry of assigned media types useless.
BL> Prior to the recent change, the media types registry listed the
BL> assigned MIME top-level media types, viz. application, audio, image,
BL> message, model, multipart, text, and video. Since the change, only
BL> the application top-level type is listed (audio, image, message,
BL> model, multipart, text, and video have vanished without a trace)
Or rather, become unlinked. For example
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/image/
is still there, just not linked anywhere.
I suspect its just an update glitch, but anyway....
BL> and superfluous repetition of the application subtypes listed in
BL> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application
BL> has appeared (these of course are not top-level media types).
BL> Could you please investigate what has gone awry and regenerate a
BL> page that provides top-level media types.
I agree, stable URIs for media types are very much needed.
--
Chris Lilley mailto:chris(_at_)w3(_dot_)org
Chair, W3C SVG Working Group
W3C Graphics Activity Lead
Co-Chair, W3C Hypertext CG
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