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2008.07.03 14:58 "Re: [Tiff] eta for bigtiff support?", by Gary McGath
- 2008.07.03 15:26 "Re: [Tiff] eta for bigtiff support?", by Bob Friesenhahn
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2008.07.03 15:28 "Re: [Tiff] eta for bigtiff support?", by Frank Warmerdam
- 2008.07.03 15:46 "Re: [Tiff] eta for bigtiff support?", by Gary McGath
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2008.07.10 21:07 "Re: [Tiff] eta for bigtiff support?", by Joris Van Damme
- 2008.07.10 21:50 "Re: [Tiff] eta for bigtiff support?", by Gary McGath
2008.07.10 21:50 "Re: [Tiff] eta for bigtiff support?", by Gary McGath
Joris Van Damme (AWare Systems) wrote:
Frank, all,
Frank wrote:
The specification is not in flux - however, clearly some of the documentation and web site materials have not been kept up to date and are off-putting to adoption.
Joris - can you address some of this?
On the BigTIFF page, second paragraph, I changed 'ongoing attempt to design' to 'ongoing attempt to launch'. The actual off-putting 'word of warning' paragraph about the proposal being just a first proposal, I changed completely, partially reusing Bob's recent wording of the BigTIFF status which I though was very fine and to the point.
Any suggestion for further improvement is appreciated. I'll be leaving for a very short holiday until some time next week, during which time the mailing list archive will not be updated, but I'll check it out as soon as I get back.
Congratulations to all involved on getting to this stage!
There's still the open issue of the MIME type, which was discussed a while back and then dropped. As I read IETF RFC 3302 (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3302.txt), "image/tiff" is defined in terms of TIFF 6.0 conformity, so it would be incorrect to refer to a BigTIFF document as "image/tiff". IANA has also registered a MIME type "image/tiff-fx" for TIFF-FX, defined by RFC 3950, so it would be consistent to shoot for "image/tiff-big". IANA requires "publication by a formal standards body," though, so it would be more realistic to stake out "image/x-tiff-big".
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Gary McGath
Digital Library Software Engineer
Harvard University Libraries, Office for Information Systems