Subject: Re: bug#68687: [PATCH] Use text/org media type

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:40:09 +0200

> Cc: [email-masked], Max Nikulin <[email-masked]>,
>  [email-masked]
> From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:43:14 +0000
> 
> However, AFAIU, text/org will fall into "standards tree" in IANA media
> type specification, which means that it MUST be registered, as described
> in https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6838.html#section-3.1
> 
> Registering text/org media type requires syntax spec. We are
> still working on format Org mode syntax specifications. See
> https://list.orgmode.org/orgmode/[email-masked]/ and
> https://orgmode.org/worg/org-syntax.html
> 
> The spec is still not fully finalized, so we are not yet initiating the
> registration, as we will need to repeat it again if we decide to make
> further changes (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6838.html#section-5.5)

I hope the process of finalizing the Org spec and moving to its
registration will not fall between the cracks.