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Hi Ethan, thanks for support. On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 3:56 AM, Ethan Davis <edavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Does WCS (or other OGC specs) require registered mime types?
I don't think so. The WMS standard states nothing more than "A list of MIME types in common use on the internet is maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)." I assume using unregisterd MIME type can never violate WMS or WCS.
Finally, who is reading these parameters/profiles? One use case is the WCS client server negotiation. Are there any other use cases at the moment?The main one that comes to mind is web browsers being handed netCDF files (not necessarily from WCS) and wanting to hand them to a helper application. Which is potentially a very important use case. And brings us back to Eizi's comments about mime type parameters.
Yes, I was thinking about this use case. Not all netcdf is in CF. Some other Conventions come from very different discipline (such as molecular dynamics or mechanical engineering), and those data cannot be properly handled by a single helper application.
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