RFC - 1590
Media Type Registration Procedure
| Obsoleted by: |
| RFC-2049draft |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples |
| RFC-2048 |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures (Obsoleted by RFC-4288, RFC-4289) (Updated by RFC-3023prop)
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| RFC-2047draft |
MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text (Updated by RFC-2184, RFC-2231prop)
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| RFC-2046draft |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types (Updated by RFC-3798draft, RFC-2646)
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| RFC-2045draft |
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies (Updated by RFC-2184, RFC-2231prop)
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| Referred by: |
20 RFC |
| Refers to: |
3 RFC |
Status
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
Several protocols allow the use of data representing different
"media" such as text, images, audio, and video, and within such media
different encoding styles, such as (in video) jpeg, gif, ief, and
tiff. The Multimedia Internet Message Extensions (MIME) protocol [1]
defined several initial types of multimedia data objects, and a
procedure for registering additional types with the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA). Several questions have been raised about
the requirements and administrative procedure for registering MIME
content-type and subtypes, and the use of these Media Types for other
applications. This document addresses these issues and specifies a
procedure for the registration of new Media Types (content-
type/subtypes). It also generalizes the scope of use of these Media
Types to make it appropriate to use the same registrations and
specifications with other applications.
