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Re: reason for application/iotp-xml (was RE: Registration of MIME media type APPLICATION/IOTP)

2000-03-13 19:48:56
On the other two points:

On 3/13/00 at 2:13 PM -0800, ned(_dot_)freed(_at_)innosoft(_dot_)com wrote:

(1) It effectively defines a content-type parameter that spans multiple top-level content types.

How? It seems to only apply to "application" as far as I can see now. But, even if this is true, we are introducing exactly the same kind of thing with "-xml" (a cross-"Content-Type" parameter, albeit encoded in the subtype name). Perhaps we should just say that this is a good place to start violating that rule?

(2) It encodes information in a parameter that is immutable -- that is, every instance of application/iotp is XML.

But this might not be true for other subtypes.

pr
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