Re: misconceptions about MIME [long]
Nathaniel Borenstein (nsb@thumper.bellcore.com)
Wed, 28 Oct 1992 10:57:20 -0500 (EST)
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Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 10:57:20 -0500 (EST)
From: Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@thumper.bellcore.com>
To: dckavan@srv.pacbell.com (Dennis Kavanaugh), timbl@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: misconceptions about MIME [long]
Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, NED@sigurd.innosoft.com,
In-Reply-To: <9210281540.AA00868@www3.cern.ch>
Excerpts from mail: 28-Oct-92 Re: misconceptions about MI.. Tim
Berners-Lee@www3.cer (894)
> Would MIME in return (a) add
> text/SGML/HTML as a MIME format (who registers DTD names?) and also
> use an IETF standard URL a the external reference format?
I'm not an expert on any of these formats, but would point out that
syntactically MIME content-types are only a two level hierarchy, but you
could name it something like "text/sgml-html". Also, if the format
isn't really human-readable, you probably don't want to put it under
"text", but are better off with "application/sgml-html" or something
like that.
Registration is with IANA, the Internet Assigned Numbers (Names?)
Authority. -- Nathaniel