2. Conventions and Definitions

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2. Conventions and Definitions

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all capitals.

This document uses the terms "Media Type", "Content Coding", "Content-Type", and "Content Format" as defined in Section 2 of [RFC9193]. In this document, those terms are fully capitalized.