Re: URL type

> We want to use the MIME typing system as a generic datatyping/naming
> mechanism (outside of mail) in our system.
Why?

There are several well-known extensible type identification systems with
far less overhead than MIME.

Are you subject to the constraints that MIME was designed to satisfy?
Human readability, RFC 822 header field use, variable content encodings,
invulnerability to various forms of corruption?

---Dan
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