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

[duerst at w3.org (Martin Duerst)]

Hello Yakov,

As far as I know, there is no convention that would force either
text/comma-separated-values or text/cvs. My suggestion is to
pick one, and have implementations converge on it. I'd personally
prefer text/cvs, just because it's shorter.

Regards,   Martin.

At 08:08 05/02/04, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
 >Martin,
 >
 >The reason why I put in an additional 'text/comma-separated-values' type
 >is because there is an existing registration for
 >"text/tabbed-separated-values" and I thought that the CSV one should
 >correspond to the existing one. However, its too long for practical use
 >which is why I included "text/csv" as well. In practice I have seen both
 >being used.
 >
 >In truth, I don't know enough about the historical conventions for MIME
 >types to judge whether an existing registration for
 >"tabbed-separated-values" should mandate "comma-separated-values". I
 >assumed that there is a convention, but if in fact I am wrong, I will be
 >happy to adjust the draft to target one type.
 >
 >As for the encoding section, you have a valid point. I will adjust it
 >for the -01 draft including the ABNF grammar in the appendix.
 >
 >Yakov
 >
 >Martin Duerst wrote:
 >> Hello Yakov,
 >> Good work. Two comments:
 >> - I think registering just text/cvs should be enough.
 >>   One point of the registry is to reduce the number of values
 >>   used for the same thing to one. The registration can serve
 >>   to converge to that.
 >
 >> - I like the realism in the "Encoding considerations" section,
 >>   but shouldn't you at least mention LF also for line ends,
 >>   or just leave out specific values?
 >> Regards,    Martin.
 >>
 >> At 10:58 05/02/03, Yakov Shafranovich wrote:
 >>  >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
 >>  >
 >>
 >>
 >
 >