- Anything registered must have a published specification, so that
anyone can write a viewer for that format and distribute it freely
if he wants to.
I think that's a completely unworkable policy. We need names for
proprietary formats, too.
I also know that is not the policy that has been followed.
We registered the macmime types (applefile, mac-binhex40, appledouble)
before there was a published specification (though I'll admit that they are
public formats that we intended to publish).
Furthermore, the "published specification" section for at least two
registered types (application/msword, application/macwriteii) say that a
published spec is unavailable.
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