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Is it too late to consider adding a subset of Markdown to the render spec?

Sean Conner sean at conman.org

Fri Feb 28 22:41:48 GMT 2020

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It was thus said that the Great Ciprian Dorin Craciun once stated:
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> Why not add a version like `text/x-gemini-2020-03`?
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> Moreover section 6 of RFC 2046 (governing the MIME types) states:
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>     https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046#section-6
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> A media type value beginning with the characters "X-" is a private
> value, to be used by consenting systems by mutual agreement.  Any
> format without a rigorous and public definition must be named with an
> "X-" prefix, and publicly specified values shall never begin with
> "X-".
> ~~~~

  RFC-6648 deprecates that practice (surprised me too when it was pointedout to me).  So either:

	text/x-gemini-2020-03

or

	text/gemini-2020-03

would be fine.  

  -spc