Subject: [Arcmedia] New Non-WG Mailing List: Arcmedia -- Discussion of creating a new top-level media type, "archive", for archive bundles.

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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:38:40 -0800

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Purpose:

Discuss the creation of a top-level media type for file archives: 
formats that package files and file metadata into a single data 
stream. Common semantics apply to all archive formats in ways that are 
very similar to multipart and message top-level types. At the highest 
level, an Internet-connected application ought to be able to identify 
that a particular piece of content is of this type (as opposed to the 
opaque application type), so it can make decisions about the content 
that are unique to archives.

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