Re: [ietf-types] Registration of media type application/senml+json

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Tue, 21 September 2010 22:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [ietf-types] Registration of media type application/senml+json
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On 9/21/10 1:12 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote:

>   Type name:  application
> 
>    Subtype name:  senml+json

I thought that the "+xml" convention was for the special class of media
types that represent XML MIME entities (RFC 3023). Is there a similar
class of "JSON MIME entities" that would justify "+json"? I don't see a
definition for such a class in RFC 4627 (not that I think it's a bad idea).

Peter

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