From: Mike Hearn <mike@plan99•net>
To: Ross Nicoll <jrn@jrn•me.uk>
Cc: Bitcoin Dev <bitcoin-development@lists•sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] BIP0071 media type registration with IANA
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 2014 22:17:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANEZrP0iNXRu+pXwjXHVihY4YtgOpyUO3bveLx0ZT5yTqyvXJw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <535C13E0.5070701@jrn.me.uk>
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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 <jrn@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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2014-04-26 20:15 Ross Nicoll
2014-04-26 20:17 ` Mike Hearn [this message]
2014-04-26 21:16 ` Jannis Froese
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