Vendor-specific MIME type for review

[mike amundsen]

Understood.

mca
http://amundsen.com/blog/




On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 21:47, Tapani Otala <otala at adobe.com> wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> Mainly it was because there did not appear to be any precedent of vendor-specific multipart types.
>
> These composite assets are intended to represent a single logical asset comprised of multiple assets. An example of such an asset would be the Photoshop Elements file format "PSE", which is a single file that contains multiple assets much like a ZIP file that in turn is registered under application/zip rather than multipart/zip.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tapani Otala
>
> On Apr 8, 2010, at 18:08 , mike amundsen wrote:
>
>> Why not register this as a Multi-Part MIME type?
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/multipart/
>>
>> mca
>> http://amundsen.com/blog/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 19:41, Tapani Otala <otala at adobe.com> wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We would like to submit a new vendor-specific MIME type for your
>>> review. The basic idea is simple, but it did not quite fit in the IANA
>>> registration form and the recommendation was to post it to this
>>> mailing list for  review.
>>>
>>> MIME media type name: application
>>>
>>> MIME subtype name: vnd.adobe.composite-asset
>>>
>>> Required parameters: final_type, final_subtype
>>>
>>> Optional parameters: none
>>>
>>> Description:
>>>
>>> This media type denotes a generic composite asset container that contains
>>> multiple sub-assets, each of which has an existing IANA registered text, image
>>> and video media types. The final type is identified by the final_type and
>>> final_subtype parameters.
>>>
>>> Sample usage:
>>>
>>> application/vnd.adobe.composite-asset; final_type=text, final_subtype=html
>>>
>>> Encoding considerations: binary
>>>
>>> This media type may require encoding on transports not capable of
>>> handling binary.
>>>
>>> Security considerations:
>>>
>>> This media type contains content that could be considered 'active'
>>> or 'executable'. However, it does not expand upon the existing
>>> security considerations already applicable to those media types.
>>>
>>> Published specification:
>>>
>>> This media type references existing IANA registered MIME types, for
>>> which there are existing specifications.
>>>
>>> Applications which use this media:
>>>
>>> Adobe Photoshop.com Web Service (http://www.photoshop.com) and its
>>> client applications.
>>>
>>> Person to contact for further information:
>>>
>>> Tapani Otala (otala at adobe.com)
>>>
>>> Intended usage: Limited Use
>>>
>>> The use of this media type is limited to the Photoshop.com web service
>>> and its client applications.
>>>
>>>
>>> Sincerely,
>>>
>>> Tapani Otala
>>> Sr. Engineering Manager, Photoshop.com Platform Services
>>> Adobe Systems Incorporated
>>>
>>>
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