What is the meaning of "vnd" in MIME types?

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rogerkk picture rogerkk · Mar 18, 2011 · Viewed 44.6k times · Source

Reading up on content providers, I keep wondering why both the category and type of Android MIME types are prefixed with vnd. For example:

vnd.android.cursor.dir/vnd.<something>
vnd.android.cursor.item/vnd.<something>

Anyone know what this stands for and what the point is?

Answer

Matthias picture Matthias · Mar 18, 2011

vnd indicates vendor-specific MIME types, which means they are MIME types that were introduced by corporate bodies rather than e.g. an Internet consortium.

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