>From the WGLC thread, Russ Housley said:

> Section 6.4.2 says:
>  The default format of the certificate is PEM (application/x-pem-file)
>  as specified by [RFC7468]. ... The client may request other formats by
>  including an Accept header in its request.  For example, the client
>  may use the media type application/pkix-cert to request the end-
>  entity certificate in DER format.
>
> RFC 7468 defines the textual encoding for certificates, but it does not 
> define the application/x-pem-file media type.  I cannot find a registration 
> for the application/x-pem-file media type.

This is a good point. Should we register x-pem-file as part of this RFC? Or 
come up with a new, more specific media type, like 
application/pem-certificate-chain?

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