Re: [m2m-iwg] M2M Media Type?

[Toby Jaffey <toby@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 17 Sep 2013, at 21:38, Philip Lombardi wrote:

Hey folks,

 

Does anyone in the m2m-iwg think there should be an M2M/IoT IANA registered root media-type?  For example, instead of “application” we could use “m2m” to indicate this content-type is intended for machine consumption.

 

Could save some bytes too on all those HTTP requests flying around

If the aim is to reduce traffic, not using HTTP would be a better step.

CoAP is a web transfer protocol for constrained environments which has all of the same concepts as HTTP.

It uses a mapping from content type strings to small integers.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-core-coap-18#section-12.3

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