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Re: [media-types] [Rats] registration for +cwt

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Sun, 30 April 2023 20:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [media-types] [Rats] registration for +cwt
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Darrel Miller <darrel@tavis.ca> wrote:
    > Could you share what scenarios you envision for clients processing an
    > application/eat+cwt as a cwt without understanding what an eat is?

Yes, any kind of network diagnostics program (tcpdump, wireshark, ssldump),
or any kind of desktop system that tags files with MIME types and can start
programs the look at them.

...

    > I get the impression that primary goal of registering the set of media
    > types
    > https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-rats-eat-media-type-01.txt
    > is to provide decoding instructions rather than conveying additional
    > semantics.  I wonder whether registering just "application/eat" and a
    > "format" parameter might be a simpler solution.

I don't believe so.

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>   . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting )
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