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RFC 1590: Media Type Registration Procedure

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 2045 — Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies; RFC 2046 — Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types; RFC 2047 — MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text; RFC 2049 — Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples; RFC 4289 — Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures; RFC 6838 — Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

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.

Document record

Document ID
RFC1590
Published
March 1994
Authors
J. Postel
Status
INFORMATIONAL
Stream
Legacy
Area
—
Pages
7
Also known as
—
Obsoleted by:
RFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047, RFC 2048, RFC 2049
Updates:
RFC 1521

Topics

Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 13 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 1341 (1992)
  2. RFC 1342 (1992)
  3. RFC 1521 (1993)
  4. RFC 1522 (1993)
  5. RFC 1590 (1994)
  6. RFC 2045 (1996)
  7. RFC 2046 (1996)
  8. RFC 2047 (1996)
  9. RFC 2048 (1996)
  10. RFC 2049 (1996)
  11. RFC 4288 (2005)
  12. RFC 4289 (2005)
  13. RFC 6838 (2013) ✓

Read the full history of Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures →

Referenced by

5 later RFCs formally update or obsolete part of this document.

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