The IESG has approved the following document: - 'YAML Media Type' (draft-ietf-httpapi-yaml-mediatypes-07.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Building Blocks for HTTP APIs Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Zaheduzzaman Sarker, Murray Kucherawy and Francesca Palombini. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpapi-yaml-mediatypes/ Technical Summary This document registers the application/yaml media type and the +yaml structured syntax suffix on the IANA Media Types registry, intended to be used to identify document components serialized according to the YAML specification. Working Group Summary There has been some concern raised over the +yaml suffix being registered in the document and how it might impact the ongoing work here in the MEDIAMAN working group with regard to fragment identifiers. However, that issue was closed at IETF115 with the recognition that each registered suffix is explicit in saying what fragment identifier should be used. https://github.com/ietf-wg-mediaman/suffixes/issues/3 Due to compatibility challenges with the fragment identifier syntax defined for application/yaml and some of the candidate mediatypes that are looking to adopt the +yaml suffix, it was decided to defer the definition of the +yaml fragment identifier to any future mediatype registration that adopts the +yaml suffix. This issue took some work to reach consensus, but did in the end https://github.com/ietf-wg-httpapi/mediatypes/issues/50. Document Quality There are implementations that assume `application/yaml` is already a registered media type. Seaching GitHub finds more than 43K files using the media type name and more than 5K files using `+yaml` suffix. Participants in the mediaman working group have been involved in reviewing this content. Developers of yaml parsers have been involved. Several members of the JSON Schema community have provided feedback as well as members of the OpenAPI community. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Darrel Miller. The Responsible Area Director is Francesca Palombini (stand in AD Zaheduzzaman Sarker). _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
