Re: [w3c/clipboard-apis] Arbitrary clipboard types (Issue #165)

Thanks for the responses, @annevk.  Another question on a point that escaped my initial reading; you said:

> They are stored in an implementation-defined manner on the underlying OS clipboard and must not interfere with builtin types.

Amongst the [goals listed in our current proposal](https://github.com/w3c/editing/blob/gh-pages/docs/clipboard-pickling/explainer.md#goals) is:

> Allow sites to represent and interact with more clipboard formats, with fine-grained control. These types will be placed on the operating system clipboard, to allow for communication between different browsers, and between web and native applications.

I believe to allow native apps the ability to communicate with web apps via multiple browser implementations, that we'll need to document, by platform, the expected shape of the web custom formats on the clipboard.  @snianu has [proposed a per-platform shape here](https://github.com/w3c/editing/blob/gh-pages/docs/clipboard-pickling/explainer.md#os-interaction-format-naming).  I'm not sure if you meant to imply the format could be different for each browser implementation or not.  Could you clarify?

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