Hi Charles,
On 2025-09-03 16:12, Charles Plessy wrote:
If the chemical top-level media type is still relevant, maybe some
people on this list would like to register it to the IANA? A recent RFC
was written about how to do such registration, and it mentions awareness
of the type (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9694.html).
If the chemical media type is not relevant anymore, I would like to
remove it.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks for bringing this to light. In my dayjob I deal mostly with files
carrying chemical information. Therefore I would be happy if chemical
media types were retained, and if that requires registering chemical/*,
then let's do it. Lots of chemical media types are not connected to
specific applications, thus I do not think that migration to
application/* is appropriate.
Are there more supporters for such cause? I have little knowledge of
IANA's affairs, it would really help to have someone with experience.
Best,
Andrius
