ISSUE-9: Why does the Web use mime types and not URIs?

uriMediaType-9

Why does the Web use mime types and not URIs?

State:

CLOSED

Product:

Raised by:

Tim Berners-Lee

Opened on:

2001-12-17

Description:

Media types are not first-class objects on the Web, or are they?

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1. Draft Minutes for the June 17 Telcon (from ashok.malhotra@oracle.com on 2010-06-18)
2. minutes TAG meeting 24-26 March in Cambridge, MA, USA for review (from connolly@w3.org on 2010-04-12)
3. Re: [State of HTML WG Unresolved Issues] (from noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com on 2009-08-25)
4. [State of HTML WG Unresolved Issues] (from raman@google.com on 2009-08-25)
5. TAG telcon (from on 2005-07-12)
6. Minutes of 12-14 May 2004 TAG FTF meeting in Boston (from on 2004-05-14)
7. Minutes of 12-14 May 2004 TAG FTF meeting in Boston (from on 2004-05-14)
8. Minutes of 15 December 2003 TAG teleconference (from on 2003-12-15)
9. Minutes of 23 June 2003 TAG teleconference (from on 2003-06-23)
10. Minutes of 5 May 2003 TAG teleconference (from on 2003-05-05)
11. Minutes of 5 May 2003 TAG teleconference (from on 2003-05-05)
12. Minutes of 6-7 Feb 2003 TAG ftf meeting (from on 2003-02-06)
13. Minutes of 9 Dec 2002 TAG teleconference (from on 2002-12-09)
14. (from on 2002-10-21)
15. Minutes of 30 August 2002 TAG teleconference (from on 2002-08-30)
16. Minutes of 12 August 2002 TAG teleconference (from on 2002-08-12)
17. Minutes of 22 July 2002 TAG teleconference (from on 2002-07-22)
18. Summary of 2002-04-15 TAG meeting (from on 2002-04-15)
19. Summary of 2002-04-08 TAG meeting (from on 2002-04-08)
20. [uriMediaType-9] Why does the Web use mime types and not URIs? (from Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org> on 2002-02-04)
21. TAG TODO: Unresolved issues in Web Architeture (from Aaron Swartz <me@aaronsw.com> on 2001-12-17)

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