Message-Id: <m0mp1xh-00009MC@garnet.msen.com> To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch Subject: proposed registration of type 'text/html' for MIME Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 15:13:07 EST From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@msen.com> Here's the form for registering 'text/html' partly filled in, from RFC 1341. I don't think this needs a ton of work, just to fill in a few of the references. As we get some operations experience with it (and some applications support!) I could imagine putting more frobs on it. Not yet tho. To: IANA@isi.edu Subject: Registration of new MIME content-type/subtype MIME type name: text MIME subtype name: html Required parameters: none Optional parameters: left open for future study. Any additional parameters should match up with existing HTML constructs, so that e.g. the parameter title="Making links in the web" would be functionally equivalent to an HTML preamble of <title>Making links in the web</title> Encoding considerations: HTML text may contain ISO Latin-1 characters or other 8 bit values; if so the text should be wrapped with one of the standard MIME 8 bit encodings. Security considerations: HTML documents may contain embedded information used to instruct browsers and viewers to execute queries on remote databases. Some HTML browsers have included support for embedded command languages. Such facilities should be used with care. Published specification: "The HTTP Protocol as Implemented in W3", avaiable for anonymous ftp from ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/doc/www/http.txt. Describes the HTTP interactive access protocol and the tags used in HTML documents. "The WWW Book", from ftp://info.cern.ch/pub/doc/the_www_book.txt. "Universal Document Identifiers on the Network", OSI-DS-XXX, from XXX. Person & email address to contact for further information: (Tim, you want to be named on this?) Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, Msen Inc. emv@Msen.com Msen Inc., 628 Brooks, Ann Arbor MI 48103 +1 313 998 GLOB