RFC3023 issued

[christopher ferris <chris.ferris@east.sun.com>]

FYI,

The murata-draft specifying the "+xml" media type convention has
been "promoted to a standards track RFC.

We should update the Message Service specification accordingly.
I'll post a formal editorial comment in a separate email.

Cheers,

Chris
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        RFC 3023

        Title:      XML Media Types
        Author(s):  M. Murata, S. St.Laurent, D. Kohn
        Status:     Standards Track
        Date:       January 2001
        Mailbox:    mmurata@trl.ibm.co.jp, simonstl@simonstl.com,
                    dan@dankohn.com
        Pages:      39
        Characters: 86011
        Updates:    2376

        I-D Tag:    draft-murata-xml-09.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc3023.txt


This document standardizes five new media types -- text/xml,
application/xml, text/xml-external-parsed-entity,
application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd --
for use in exchanging network entities that are related to the
Extensible Markup Language (XML).  This document also standardizes a
convention (using the suffix '+xml') for naming media types outside
of these five types when those media types represent XML MIME
(Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) entities.  XML MIME entities
are currently exchanged via the HyperText Transfer Protocol on the
World Wide Web, are an integral part of the WebDAV protocol for remote
web authoring, and are expected to have utility in many domains.

Major differences from RFC 2376 are (1) the addition of
text/xml-external-parsed-entity,
application/xml-external-parsed-entity, and application/xml-dtd, (2)
the '+xml' suffix convention (which also updates the RFC 2048
registration process), and (3) the discussion of "utf-16le" and
"utf-16be".

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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