Re: URIs for MIME types

The earlier discussion on this list suggested some  URI's at isi.edu 
(see snip below.)


At 10:28 AM -0400 6/6/00, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
>Not so far as I know, although the idea has been talked about before. And it
>would be pretty trivial to do (but more difficult to convince the rest of the
>world to use it...)
>
>cheers
>
>Charles McCN
>
>On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, James Tauber wrote:
>
>
>   Has anyone grandfathered MIME types into URI space?
>
>   James
>
>
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At 4:10 PM -0600 11/9/99, Dan Connolly wrote:
>Eric Hellman wrote:
><rdfs:Class ID="MIME-Type">
>         <rdfs:comment>These are the allowed MIME-types.</rdfs:comment>
>[...]
>         <MIME-Type ID="text-html">
>========
>
>I recommend, in stead, that you allow any resource as a MIME type,
>and note that those those that start with:
>
>	http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/
>
>have been registered with IANA; for example:
>
>	http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/text/html
>
>I guess you could spell this in RDF as:
>
>	<rdf:Description
>
>aboutEachPrefix="http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/"
>	rdf:type="#MIME-Type" />
>
>or, equivalently (I think):
>
>	<MIME-Type
>
>aboutEachPrefix="http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/"
>/>

Eric Hellman
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Received on Tuesday, 6 June 2000 10:49:30 UTC