I ask since after opening a bug to add webp support to Python's Mimetypes library, the triager commented that it would be easier to approve the addition if the format were registered with IANA. https://bugs.python.org/issue38902
registering to IANA has never been a top-priority, considering the administrative work involved and the fact that image/webp is a de-facto usage standard already. The added value is unclear, considering the time investment. Doesn't mean nobody shouldn't invest time in it if they feel so inclined! It's just a matter of priorities and time allocation.
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Hello, Could you please register it to IANA so that Debian and possibly other distros add it to their mimetypes? Without that WebP images aren't correctly recognized in the system and that's a big problem.
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This is being supported by an Area Director now. One final request after the last call was to embed the container [1] and lossless [2] documentation into the rfc.
The RFC went through another last call which completed at the beginning of September. The IANA has agreed to the request in the document. Further discussion is on the agenda for an IESG telechat on 9/22: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zern-webp/.
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clarify that the data is after the size specified by the file size in the header; an alternate way to read the previous statement was that the data was after the 'WEBP' fourcc.