[mpeg-OTspec] FW: font media types

[suzuki toshiya]

Dear Vladimir,

Could I circulate this document to forthcoming
SC34 meeting (Mar/28th-Apr/2nd) in Prague?

Regards,
suzuki toshiya, Hiroshima University, a member of JTC1/SC34/WG2

Levantovsky, Vladimir wrote:
> 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
>