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Terminology

Different internet standards or web standards bodies differ on the preferred term for this type of identifier.

The IANA and IETF use the term "media type", and consider the term "MIME type" to be obsolete, since media types have become used in contexts unrelated to email, such as HTTP. By contrast, the WHATWG continues to use the term "MIME type" and discourages use of the term "media type" as

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