[9665] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Setting up PowerPoint as Helper application
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shel Kaphan)
Wed Jan 24 12:43:18 1996
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 09:26:34 -0800
From: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>
To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <96Jan24.083625pst.2733@golden.parc.xerox.com>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Larry Masinter writes:
...
>
> It would be awful to have an independent registry. We already have two
> registries of media types, one through IETF and the Internet, and
> another in use in the Electronic Messaging Association using ISO
> object IDs for binary transfer. The Binary File Transfer group of the
> fax standards organization was considering establishing another, and
> so was the Document Management Association.
>
You know what they say about standards: the wonderful thing about
them is that there are always so many to choose from.
