[vorbis-dev] Mime type

David Burnett vargol at bigfoot.com
Wed Apr 26 10:35:52 PDT 2000



>    Why that "x-" there? Because everybody does it that way? Why not
>just "audio/ogg"? Or am I missing something?
>
Simply,

There's a body that sets standard MIME types IANA(?), the internal name
(the second bit), can be anything if it starts with 'x-', official ones
don't start 'x-', so we can use audio/x-ogg until we are ratified, 
if ever, then we can become audio/ogg

Dave

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