>> WHEN I registered a media-type on the ietf list I have been quite much hit as the first comment "one says media-type
sorry for the capitalization
>> nowadays". And indeed MIME is meant for email originally.
>>
>> So I guess politically media-type is a requirement.
>> Should I dig for a formal requirement?
>
> HTML and other specifications use MIME type.
Well, I think it's the duty of the W3C to use the vocabulary of the people that define this kind of thing.
Do you have a pointer to a recommendation usage of mime-type?
> Media type is ambiguous with CSS.
Why?
paul