docs(iana): mark vnd.a2ml as never submitted, superseded, and expand the name

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What this does

Marks docs/iana/application-vnd.a2ml-registration.txt as never submitted and
superseded, so that nobody files it and nobody cites it as a registered type.

Confirmed by the change controller on 2026-09-14: application/vnd.a2ml was
drafted but never sent to IANA. It is therefore an unregistered media type
string — not reserved, not allocated, and it must not be described anywhere as a
registered type or as a registered alias.

Three consequences, all now stated in the file header:

1. A do-not-file banner. The document is retained only as the historical
   draft that application/vnd.deed was derived from.
2. A pointer to the real registration —
   standards/deed/docs/iana/application-vnd.deed-registration.txt, which is a
   fresh registration rather than a change request precisely because this one
   was never filed.
3. The expansion ruling. "A2ML" expands to "Attestation Markup Language"
   (RULED 2026-09-14). Three repositories each carried a different expansion —
   Attested Agent Markup Language, Attestation Markup Language, Annotated Markup
   Language — and the attestation reading, without "agent", is canonical for
   every historical reference. The other two are to be corrected wherever they
   appear.

The phantom format-registrations/iana/... canonical-copy line is dropped here
too: that location exists in no repository, so this file previously described
itself as a synchronised copy of an original that was never created. It lives
beside the specification it describes; there is no second copy.

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📝 Summary

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Updated the historical application/vnd.a2ml media type record to clarify that it was never submitted to IANA.
  • Recorded that the media type is superseded by application/vnd.deed.
  • Clarified the canonical expansion of A2ML and updated the document’s preparation details.

Walkthrough

The IANA media type record now states that application/vnd.a2ml was not submitted, is superseded by application/vnd.deed, and remains as historical source material.

Changes

IANA record correction

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Historical registration status docs/iana/application-vnd.a2ml-registration.txt	The header replaces submission details with the unsubmitted status, superseding registration link, historical provenance, and canonical A2ML expansion.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~3 minutes

Change: Other

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b3c6c

The documentation update is internally consistent, with no concrete merge-blocking risk identified.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarises the main changes: it marks application/vnd.a2ml as never submitted, superseded, and expands A2ML.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the documentation changes, their rationale, and the resulting registration guidance.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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_{A rabbit checks the media mark
The old draft rests within the archive
No submission crossed the IANA gate
A deed now names the current state
A2ML keeps its proper phrase}

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