Re: [apps-discuss] should +gzip be registered as a media type structured syntax suffix ?

["John Levine" <[e-mail]>]

>Almost every one of the other suffixes in the draft already have sample 
>uses in the wild, but I haven't seen any +gzip suffixes in the wild (or 
>+deflate for that matter).

They're both content coding options for Accept-Encoding: in http, and
I think are fairly popular there.  That's probably why you don't see
them in media types.  Or else applications intuit them in other ways,
e.g., a file name that ends with .tgz.

I presume you're aware that my draft defining application/gzip and
application/deflate is in last call.  I agree that in a more perfect
world MIME would have better ways to describe compressed encodings,
but when I noticed that DMARC picked application/zip mostly because it
was already registered, I figured they deserved equal time.

R's,
John