MIME Type Registration Request Approval: application/xop+xml

[IETF Secretariat <ietf-secretariat-reply at ietf.org>]

The IESG has approved a request to register the "application/xop+xml" MIME
media type in the standards tree. This media type is a product of the World
Wide Web Consortium (W3C). 


The IESG contact persons are Ted Hardie and Scott Hollenbeck.


MIME media type name: application


MIME subtype name: xop+xml


Required parameters:


type


This parameter conveys the content type associated with the XML 
serialization of the XOP infoset, including parameters as appropriate.


Optional parameters:


charset


This parameter has identical semantics to the charset parameter of 
the "application/xml" media type as specified in RFC 3023 [RFC3023].


Encoding considerations:


Identical to those of "application/xml" as described in RFC 3023 
[RFC3023], section 3.2.


Security considerations:


In addition to application-specific considerations, XOP has the same 
security considerations described in RFC3023 [RFC3023], section 10.


Interoperability considerations:


There are no known interoperability issues.


Published specification:


http://www.w3.org/TR/xop10/


Applications which use this media type:


No known applications currently use this media type.


Additional information:


File extension: XOP


Fragment identifiers:


Identical to that of "application/xml" as described in RFC 3023 
[RFC3023], section 5.


Base URI:


As specified in RFC 3023 [RFC3023], section 6.


Macintosh File Type code: TEXT


Person and email address to contact for further information:


Mark Nottingham <mnot at pobox.com>


Intended usage:


COMMON


Author/Change controller:


The XOP specification is a work product of the World Wide Web 
Consortium's XML Protocol Working Group. The W3C has change control over 
this specification.


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