Tons of questions. And some patches

Frans Englich frans.englich at telia.com
Sun Jan 25 14:47:29 GMT 2004


On Saturday 24 January 2004 15:41, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Frans Englich wrote:
> >* There's a lot of non registered mimetypes(ie. x-diff). Why aren't
> > they registered at IANA? Is there a any reason to register them?
>
> AFAIK, because it's not easy to register MIME types with IANA that
> aren't application/vnd.*

Yeah, IIRC you would basically have to specify the file format in a RFC, as 
well as the formal process was more complex(consensus had to be reached in 
some standard body outside IANA).
But that shouldn't prevent the types from being registered as vnd.* ..?


			Frans





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