File formats:

Status:

INFORMATIONAL

Obsoleted by:

RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049

Updates:

RFC 1521

Author:

J. Postel

Stream:

[Legacy]

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC1590

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Abstract

Several questions have been raised about the requirements and administrative procedure for registering MIME content-type and subtypes, and the use of these Media Types for other applications. This document addresses these issues and specifies a procedure for the registration of new Media Types (content-type/subtypes). It also generalizes the scope of use of these Media Types to make it appropriate to use the same registrations and specifications with other applications. This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.