Re: MIME type for libpcap-format capture files

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>]

> > > > > "Phil" == Phil Vandry <vandry () TZoNE ORG> writes:
    Phil> It's a start but I don't agree with the choice of type. First
    Phil> they ignored the specification which clearly says that only
    Phil> types registered with IANA or published as RFCs can be named
    Phil> without the "x-" prefix (see RFC2045 section 5.1). Second and
    Phil> perhaps more importantly, "cap" is a poor description...

  I agree.
  I don't see why we shouldn't request an official type anyway.

  RFC4288 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4288) is the latest doctrine on
getting media types, and basically, we post to ietf-types () iana org.
  As for a specification document, pcap.h is basically it.
  We would be a vendor type.

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