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Re: [auth48] [AD - Murray] AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9277 <draft-ietf-cbor-file-magic-12> for your review

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sat, 13 August 2022 08:49 UTC

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Sent from mobile, sorry for terse

> It means _Android Package Kit_

The file extension may have originated from that, but I’m not sure that is what it means now. 

> (Although Android Application PacKage is another expansion the Internet seems
> to also have)

Which seems to be closer to what an APK is today. 

> I'd have thought that a page like:
> https://developer.android.com/guide/components/fundamentals
> 
> might expand APK before using it...

That it doesn’t may be another symptom for APK no longer actually being an initialism. 

Grüße, Carsten

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