Re: Media types

On Thursday 17 January 2002 11:36 am, Williams, Stuart wrote:
> I think we agree... in some sense the media-type communicates
> something that is not simply discernable by looking at the content.
> It's not redundant information, in some sense it adds value.

Right. I think MIME type is insufficient though. Eventually, we want 
to be able to say

   "this is an html document, and I authorize you to view this in a
    browser"

thereby disallowing producing a PDF from it, or interpreting it as a 
stylesheet. 

Even for simple type labelling, MIME needs to be arbitraryily 
extensible (whence the text/xml/<whatever> debate).