Example media type and subtype

Ned Freed ned.freed at mrochek.com
Mon Mar 20 21:58:28 CET 2006


> A need has arisen in MMUSIC for a media type to use strictly as an
> example. In the particular case, something like application/example
> would do. Discussion of the matter led to the suggestion that
> registrations be defined for */example (presumably scoped to the
> standards tree only) and a new top-level media type example/*. Since the
> use would be for documentation only, it would seem that there would not
> be much to say in most fields of the registration template.

> Comments?

Sounds like a good idea to me. In fact I almost wish we'd done this in the
revised registration procedure document (although perhaps its BCP status makes
that a touch problematic).

				Ned


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