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At 17:46 08/06/98 +1000, Rick Jelliffe wrote: [...] > >You can also apply to the IETF and get your own >registration tree. So Microsoft, for example, >could apply for "ms": then they could have >"appplication/ms-rml". (But no-one has done this yet, >so it perhaps involves too much effort to be >a viable alternative.) FWIW, 2-3 years ago Henry, Ben Whitaker and I submitted a draft for MIME types of the form: chemical/* There was a lot of discussion on the IETF list about whether this was a Good Thing. We had some support and some dissent :-). In the event it lapsed. However the molecular community universally uses: chemical/x-foo to describe files of type foo. AFAIK this has not broken any software, but maybe a time will come when the s/w checks the toplevel types. The message - which I don't suggest we elaborate on here - is that MIME is not robust with regard to uniquifying mime types. The message is that we have to make sure we don't repeat the mistake with namespaces - i.e. we should have uniquifiable planetwide names. P. Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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