Excerpts from internet.ietf-822: 20-Jan-93 SGML, RichText, etc. Ran
Atkinson(_at_)itd(_dot_)nrl(_dot_)nav (1784)
5) There are a large number of folks who have observed that there is
widespread confusion of the commercial "Rich Text Format (RTF)" and
MIME Richtext -- those making the observation all seem to feel that
RTF is well entrenched and that the MIME Richtext should be renamed to
something less confusion. I'd like to see the MIME authors seriously
consider this as I expect to be using MIME for a long long time.
Agreed. How about "text/enriched"?