| Internet-Draft | Obsoleting the Concept of Media Type Suf | February 2025 |
| Thomson & Nottingham | Expires 6 August 2025 | [Page] |
The use of a '+' character in media types was originally used to define media sub-types. The use of media type suffixes were never clearly defined.¶
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The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals, as shown here.¶
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