[fitsbits] FITS Mime Type for gzipped bintable

[Steve Allen]

On Tue 2013-06-11T09:36:04 -0400, Arnold Rots hath writ:
> The accepted bintable Mimetype is:
> application/x-fits-bintable     A FITS binary table (single BINTABLE
> extension)
>
> For image and tar there are such options but not for bintable
> image/x-fits-gzip                   A GZIP-compressed FITS image
> application/x-tar-gzip            A GZIP-compressed TAR file
>
> Reading the IANA and related FITS specs it is is not clear
> (or may be not allowed) whether one can make up something like:
> application/x-fits-bintable-**gzip

RFC 4047 defines none of these, and with the IANA everything
starting with "x-" is not actually registered as a media type.
If you want something with an "x-" then you can have it.

> Why was no gzip version of the bintable Mimetype defined?

I am unconvinced that any of these are "defined".

The process of getting new definitions from the IANA is now much
streamlined by comparison to when we did RFC 4047.  It should be
possible to get the IANA to rubber stamp almost anything that the IAU
FWG declares as a media type.

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