[sugar] xo bundle mime-type

Jim Gettys jg
Fri Apr 20 16:59:25 EDT 2007


Heh.

I refer you to the IETF RFC's for more information.
http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rfcsearch.pl

Search on "mime types", RFC4288, BCP0013 are the most applicable
documents.
                                  Regards,
                                         - Jim


On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 16:27 -0400, John (J5) Palmieri wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 22:17 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> 
> > 
> > This is what Jim suggested and Tomeu put in the current implementation:
> > 
> > application/vnd.olpc-x-sugar
> > 
> > I can't find the ticket is suggested it on anymore and I don't remember
> > the rationale though.
> 
> I see MS uses vnd. for a lot of their types.  Not sure what it means.
> the -x- suggests an experimental name (though the spec just says it
> should not start with and x- or x.). Also don't we wish to have xo
> somewhere in the name so we can have different bundle types?  Just
> looking to the future if we need to register other mime-types it would
> be nice to have a single naming format for readability.
> 
-- 
Jim Gettys
One Laptop Per Child





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