This registry is intended to help define authoritative identifiers for negotiating requests for specific metadata types in standards such as Jangle or unAPI.
The identifiers themselves arbitrary; while consistency is helpful, it's not mandated. Also using a term that makes sense for a given format (such as the explicit mime-type or namespace) will be more intuitive. The important part is to have agreement on exactly what a given identifier stands for.
Comments
Three remarks
1. There once was a registry of unAPI format names, see http://unapi.info/news/archives/17 . How does this page related to the other?
2. This list contains mime-types as well as URIs. We should limit on one instead of mixing identifier types.
3. Who manages this list?