On Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM Jiankang Yao <[email protected]> wrote:

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>
> *From:* Alice Russo <[email protected]>
> *Date:* 2025-02-28 00:02
> *To:* resnick <[email protected]>; Jiankang Yao <[email protected]>; Arnt
> Gulbrandsen <[email protected]>
> *CC:* Murray S. Kucherawy <[email protected]>; Bron Gondwana
> <[email protected]>; extra-ads <[email protected]>; extra-chairs
> <[email protected]>; RFC Editor <[email protected]>;
> auth48archive <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: AUTH48: RFC-to-be 9755 <draft-ietf-extra-6855bis-04> for
> your review
>
>
> >> 5) <!--[rfced] In general in RFCs, the term "MIME type"
> >> should be "media type". Please review whether these updates
> >> convey the intended meaning.
> >>
> >> a new MIME type -> a new media type
> >>
> >> the MIME structure of a message
> >> -> the media type of the body of a message
> >> -->
> >
>
> My understanding is that "MIME type" is better than "media type" in the
> document.
>
>
Why is "MIME type" better than "media type"?  The former is the older name
for the same thing; the latter is the preferred term.

-MSK
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