Mime type for annotated data

[Laurent Michel]

Dear groups

At the last interop, apps session, I showed a TAP service that annotates data with MIVOT, as long as you use 
    FORMAT=application/mango.

I was rightly told that this was probably the worst choice I could have made, even for a simple demonstrator.

The question now is to construct a mime type, compatible with the RFCs and expressing the fact that the response to the request is a VOTable, whose data is mapped onto a model using the MIVOT syntax.

I think the right solution is to use the parameters as defined in rfc2045

There are two options:

1- say the data is annotated with MIVOT and let the client find out which model it is.

    application/x-votable+xml;mapping=mivot

2- say the data is mapped to the MANGO model with MIVOT

    application/x-votable+xml;mivot=mango

This second solution highlights a particular model, but it may make sense for our use cases.

Any suggestions or comments?

All the best, 

Laurent