Re: MIME type for libpcap-format capture files

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Dec 11, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Jefferson Ogata wrote:

> I agree. For one thing, another MIME type might eventually exist for  
> filter specifications. It is not sufficient to describe a capture  
> file as simply "pcap".
>
> But what I think is missing is a version number. Given the talk in  
> recent years about implementing the next version, I think the type  
> should be application/pcap-capture-v1.

Given that the next version

	1) is extensible, so, with any luck, it should be a long while before  
we need to come up with a next version after that;

	2) is called "pcap-NG", so "application/pcap-ng-capture" or something  
such as that could be its media type;

	3) there's no number in the file that's being bumped from 1 to 2 by  
pcap-ng (there is a major and minor version number in pcap format, but  
all versions would be "application/pcap-capture", and there's a major  
and minor version number in pcap-ng format, but that's in the section  
header block, and there could be multiple sections with different  
versions - and they'd all be "application/pcap-ng-capture" in any case);

I don't see any need for "-v1" in the media type.
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