From szilles@adobe.com Thu Jun 27 08:19:30 1996 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 16:19:30 -0800 To: IANA@ISI.EDU From: szilles@adobe.com (Steve Zilles) Subject: Registration of MIME type: application/vnd.fdf Cc: szilles@mv.us.adobe.com Content-Length: 1464 Status: RO X-Lines: 52 MIME type name: application (If the above is not an existing top-level MIME type, please explain why an existing type cannot be used.) MIME subtype name: vnd.fdf A Content-Type of "application/vnd.fdf" indicates a document in Forms Data Format. The Forms Data Format (FDF) is described in an Adobe Systems Technical Note [FDF]. Required parameters: none Optional parameters: none Encoding considerations: FDF files may contain binary data (either in strings or in streams (which are used to represent images among other things). Security considerations: There are not security considerations for an FDF as documented in the specification [FDF]. FDF is extensible, however, and is capable of carrying other file formats. Such extensions could be executable, for example, JAVA applets, which may have security considerations. Published specification: [FDF]: Forms Data Format Specification, Technical Note 5173 Adobe Systems, Inc, 1996. Person & email address to contact for further information: Tim Bienz Adobe System Inc. 1585 Charleston Rd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 USA tbienz@adobe.com or Stephen Zilles Adobe System Inc. 1585 Charleston Rd. Mountain View, CA 94039-7900 USA szilles@adobe.com []