Re: [RSS-DEV] Re: [syndication] Correct sort of MIME type for other stuff?

["Mark Nottingham" <mnot@mnot.net>]

It's all in RFC2048 - http://rfc2048.x42.com/

Basically, vnd is for vendor-specific media types that don't want to go
through the review process; they can be directly registered with IANA. prs
is the same, except it's personal instead of vendor-specific.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Kearney" <wkearney99@hotmail.com>
To: <rss-dev@yahoogroups.com>; <syndication@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [RSS-DEV] Re: [syndication] Correct sort of MIME type for
other stuff?


> > X- headers and types are officially discouraged*; it's more
appropriate
> > (and dirt easy) to register a vnd or prs media type; e.g.,
> >
> >   application/vnd.userland.opml
> >   application/vnd.opml
> >   application/prs.davewiner.opml
> >   application/prs.opml
>
> Can you suggest links that offer explanations about vnd and prs?  I'd
like to
> get a grip on the rationale behind them.
>
> -Bill Kearney
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