Re: the success of MIME types was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
t.petch wrote: > You will be aware of the recent threads on apps-discuss about MIME types The threads are on PPTX and DOCX, that is, file name extensions, not MIME types, which demonstrates that MIME was not necessary and uuencode is just enough. > If this were not true, then I believe that some

Re: the success of MIME types was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-29 Thread ned+ietf
> - Original Message - > From: "Julian Reschke" > To: "Yaakov Stein" > Cc: "John C Klensin" ; "ietf" > Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 6:07 PM > > On 2011-11-26 21:52, Yaakov Stein wrote: > > >> That leaves ASCII, a few forms of PDF, and RFC 5198-conforming UTF-8. > > >> That wouldn't bo

Re: the success of MIME types was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-29 Thread Julian Reschke
On 2011-11-29 09:32, t.petch wrote: ... You will be aware of the recent threads on apps-discuss about MIME types (of > ... "Internet Media Types" :-) > ... which the text/plain you mention is one) which concluded, AFAICS, that there is no rationale why a (top level) type should or should not

the success of MIME types was Re: discouraged by .docx was Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-29 Thread t.petch
- Original Message - From: "Julian Reschke" To: "Yaakov Stein" Cc: "John C Klensin" ; "ietf" Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 6:07 PM > On 2011-11-26 21:52, Yaakov Stein wrote: > >> That leaves ASCII, a few forms of PDF, and RFC 5198-conforming UTF-8. > >> That wouldn't bother me much, bu