On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore@gmail.com> wrote:
On 18 February 2015 at 20:48, Jim J. Jewett <jimjjewett@gmail.com> wrote:
Barry Warsaw wrote:
I don't know exactly what the procedure would be to claim .pyz for *nix, e.g. updating /etc/mime.types,
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Are you just looking for
http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml and ...
That covers mime types, but not file extensions, so it's not really what *I* thought Barry was talking about.
Question 13 at http://www.iana.org/form/media-types asks for additional information, and specifically calls out Magic Number and File Extension, among others. I doubt there is any more official repository for file extension meaning within MIME or unix.
Also, I don't think reserving anything is something I, as an individual (and specifically a non-Unix user) should do. It probably should be handled by the PSF, as the process seems to need a contact email address...
Ideally, it would be a long-lasting organizational address, such as pep-editor@python.org. But often, it isn't. -jJ