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Re: [media-types] Templates for basic MIME types

Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org> Mon, 28 December 2020 12:19 UTC

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Yes, that was my understanding too.

By modern standards, these original grandfathered types are way 
under-specified.

On 2020-12-28 13:25, Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote:
> I read the proposal as offering to clarify that and all of the other
> marvelous metadata (security, encoding, interop consideration and
> fragment IDs) that has accumulated in the registration template over
> the years ².

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Chris Lilley
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Technical Director @ W3C
W3C Strategy Team, Core Web Design
W3C Architecture & Technology Team, Core Web & Media

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