On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Chris Lilley <ch...@w3.org> wrote: > On Saturday, February 18, 2012, 7:02:45 PM, Anne wrote: > > AvK> On Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:47:08 +0100, Paul Libbrecht <p...@hoplahup.net> > AvK> wrote: >>> Well, I think it's the duty of the W3C to use the vocabulary of the >>> people that define this kind of thing. > > AvK> FWIW, the duty of the W3C is to bring the web to its full potential, not > AvK> quibble over terminology. > > So just call it 'Internet Media Type' like the IETF and IANA do, and quit > quibbling.
I wish they did, consistently. See RFC 4288 (just "media type") and the registry itself ("MIME media type") <http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/index.html>. Plus they're still routinely referred to as "MIME types" in many IETF contexts, including the ietf-types list! In short, I believe the name change was a failure. My suggestion would be to use "MIME type (aka Internet media type)" initially, but stick with "MIME type" thereafter. Mark.