Media types

[Jirka Kosek]

MURATA Makoto (FAMILY Given) wrote:
> One thing we should discuss is media types for ZIP.
> 
> Application/zip was registered in 1993. See
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/zip
> 
> Should we also create a media type naming convention "+zip"?  
> This is similar to "+xml" (RFC 3023).

Is this really necessary? At least currently existing formats relying on
ZIP (like OOXML, ODF) have their own media type and it doesn't make
sense to change them. So such new media type can be of use only for
newly created ZIP based formats.

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