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Re: URIs for MIME types

From: Graham Klyne <GK@Dial.pipex.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 14:58:01 +0100
Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000606145444.00a82b40@pop.dial.pipex.com>
To: James Tauber <JTauber@bowstreet.com>
Cc: "'www-rdf-interest@w3.org'" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>

>At 10:20 AM 6/6/00 -0400, James Tauber wrote:
>
>Has anyone grandfathered MIME types into URI space?
>
>James

Not yet to my knowledge.

But there is an initiative currently being investigated with IANA to see if 
_ALL_ IANA registrations can be represented in a URN name space.  For MIME 
content-types, I guess that would yield something like:

    urn:iana:content-type:text/plain

#g

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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)
Received on Tuesday, 6 June 2000 13:50:37 UTC

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