FW: font media types

[Levantovsky, Vladimir]

Dear AHG,

Please see below the email from Mr. Karsten Luecke regarding the registration of the MIME types for various font formats. I brought this subject for consideration of the WG11 meeting, and we have reached an agreement that it would make perfect sense for MPEG to register the MIME types for OFF and other related font formats (TTF, OTF, ...) under the existing top level MIME "application" tree.

The decision was that the AHG should move quickly to finalize the list of font formats for MIME type registration, suggest the MIME types to apply for, and prepare the text of the application to IANA. At the same time, we will have an extended two-week editing period for the existing Working Draft Amendment so that the proposed MIME types could be added in the text of the amendment before it's submitted for ballot.

We need to proceed quickly - the text of the application including the list of font formats and their corresponding MIME types must be finalized no later than April 6th.

Thank you and regards,
Vladimir


-----Original Message-----
From: Karsten Luecke [mailto:karsten.luecke at kltf.de] 
Sent: Sunday, February 06, 2011 6:52 AM
Subject: font media types

Dear Mr Levantovsky, Mr Atkins, Mr Lilley & Mr Irish,

reading 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2010Nov/0051.html 
and googling for media types for other font formats, I came across

WOFF
application/font-woff
     according to
     http://dev.w3.org/webfonts/WOFF/spec/#appendix-b
 
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webfonts-wg/2010Nov/0051.html

EOT
application/vnd.ms-fontobject
     which seems to be fine according to
     http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/

TTF OTF (OFF?)
application/vnd.ms-opentype
     according to
 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.packaging.packagepart.contenttype.aspx
     but also
application/octet-stream
     according to
     http://www.jbarker.com/blog/2009/mime-type-css-web-fonts
     plus a not sufficiently answered request at
     http://www.alvestrand.no/pipermail/ietf-types/2008-August/002066.html

Is there anything reliable as regards TTF OTF OFF?

It were nice to have a single place, like the iana.org page, to refer to 
when it comes to this.

(The samples on the jbarker.com make me wonder if the trailing dot 
should be included in the AddType declaration or not.)

Best wishes!
Karsten