Media Types 'text/csv' and 'text/comma-separated-values'

[Yakov Shafranovich]

Hi all,

I noticed that the MIME registration tree has an entry for 
'text/tab-separated-values' but for some reason doesn't have any 
registration for 'text/comma-separated-values' or 'text/csv. I have been 
reviewing some of the stuff out there and so far have seen the following 
being used:

application/csv
text/csv
text/comma-separated-values
text/x-csv

I was wondering if there would be any value to formally register two of 
the CSV types being used from the text tree (text/csv and 
text/comma-separated-values). I put together a small draft which hasn't 
posted to the ID repository yet. A copy should be available here:

http://www.shaftek.org/publications/drafts/mime-csv/draft-shafranovich-mime-csv-00.txt

Yakov