Protocol Action: 'Example media types for use in documentation' to Proposed Standard

[The IESG <iesg-secretary at ietf.org>]

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Example media types for use in documentation '
   <draft-taylor-types-example-05.txt> as a Proposed Standard

This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an
IETF Working Group. 

The IESG contact person is Magnus Westerlund.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-taylor-types-example-05.txt

Technical Summary
 
This document specifies a new top level media type "example" and the sub-type
"/example" for all of the media top level types, i.e. application, audio, image,
  message, model, multipart, text, and video. These type are soley intended to
be used in examples in other standards documents in cases when specific media
types are not required. 
 
Working Group Summary
 
 This is not a product of a WG. 
 
Protocol Quality
 
 This responsible AD for this document was Magnus Westerlund.
 The document was reviewed by people on the ietf-types at iana.org 
 mailing list. 

Note to RFC Editor
 
Section 1, 2nd paragraph:
OLD:
   o  the 'text/example', 'image/example', 'audio/example', 'video/
      example', 'application/example', and 'multipart/example' media
      subtypes.

NEW: 
   o  the 'application/example', 'audio/example', 'image/example',
      'message/example', 'model/example', 'multipart/example', 
      'text/example', and 'video/example' media subtypes.


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