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12. IANA Considerations

The change controller for the following registrations is: "IETF ([email protected]) - Internet Engineering Task Force".

12.1. Field Name Registration

IANA has added the following field names to the "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Field Name Registry" at \https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-fields\``, as described in Section 18.4 of [HTTP].

Field NameStatusSectionComments
Closepermanent9.6(reserved)
MIME-VersionpermanentB.1
Transfer-Encodingpermanent6.1

12.2. Media Type Registration

IANA has updated the "Media Types" registry at \https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types\`` with the registration information in Sections 10.1 and 10.2 for the media types "message/http" and "application/http", respectively.

12.3. Transfer Coding Registration

IANA has updated the "HTTP Transfer Coding Registry" at \https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters/\`` with the registration procedure of Section 7.3 and the content coding names summarized in the table below.

NameDescriptionSection
chunkedTransfer in a series of chunks7.1
compressUNIX "compress" data format [Welch]7.2
deflate"deflate" compressed data ([RFC1951]) inside the "zlib" data format ([RFC1950])7.2
gzipGZIP file format [RFC1952]7.2
trailers(reserved)12.3
x-compressDeprecated (alias for compress)7.2
x-gzipDeprecated (alias for gzip)7.2

Note: the coding name "trailers" is reserved because its use would conflict with the keyword "trailers" in the TE header field (Section 10.1.4 of [HTTP]).

12.4. ALPN Protocol ID Registration

IANA has updated the "TLS Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) Protocol IDs" registry at \https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-extensiontype-values/\`` with the registration below:

ProtocolIdentification SequenceReference
HTTP/1.10x68 0x74 0x74 0x70 0x2f 0x31 0x2e 0x31 ("http/1.1")RFC 9112