So what's preventing us from registering:
application/wp51
Already registered as application/wordperfect5.1
application/word5
Already registered as application/msword
While neither of these were registered by the companies who "own" the formats,
it is interesting to note that in the MAWG OID registry work in the EMA
Microsoft asserts that versioning and platform information is not necessary in
such fields since it is carried in the format itself, whereas Wordperfect (now
Novell) asserts that this information should be present. In other words, these
values are in fact technically aligned with how the companies have stated that
these things should be handled.
That is the use that most of the SURFnet users would want to get out of
mime. Much more than image/gif or video/mpeg or even application/postscript.
These two at least are done deals -- why not use them?
Ned