I'm getting a strong feeling that resistance on this issue isn't the suffix
itself, it's resistance to any change at all in the MIME approach as
defined in 1996.
Perhaps, although speaking as one of the coauthors of the MIME specification,
I have no problem with the proposal.
I don't see the 'complexity' that certain other folks here are complaining
about - in fact, I think these 4 bytes promise considerable simplification
over any multi-parameter approach, for both humans and machines.
I agree. I'm not wild about the suffix, but I have become convinced that every
other approach (separate media type parameter, separate content-disposition
parameter, conneg tag, new top level media type, sniffing the data) loses in
some fairly major way.
Ned