2018.05.11 14:18 "Re: [Tiff] LZ4 compression", by Kemp Watson

Sorry to report that is not the case:

https://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/tiff/register/tag_reg.do

Regards,

Kemp

On Fri, May 11, 2018 at 9:59 AM, Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>

wrote:

> Sorry for not reporting back!
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> It is my understanding that this has been resolved and things (tag
> registry, docs, etc) should all be up and running as before. Please try
> and let me know if it is not.

Leonard

> *From:* Kemp Watson <kemp@objectivepathology.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, May 11, 2018 8:24 AM
> *To:* Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>
> *Cc:* tiff@lists.maptools.org; Leonard Rosenthol <lrosenth@adobe.com>

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> *Subject:* Re: [Tiff] LZ4 compression
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> Yes. Sadly, that was my point… I don’t believe we’ve heard back from

Adobe, although I know Leonard was trying to push for a status.

The issue with just adding this to libtiff, and becoming a new source of

> “truth” for tags, is that there are literally thousands of tags that were

registered with Adobe, that are not referenced in the libtiff code to which

> you’ve referred. Undoubtedly, new registrations would stomp all over old

ones, which destroys the whole point of a registry.

At the very least, Adobe should turn over the current registry state if

> they don’t want to maintain it further. It would be very unprofessional not

to do one or the other.

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> *From: *Even Rouault <even.rouault@spatialys.com>
> *Date: *Friday, May 11, 2018 at 7:30 AM
> *To: *Watson Kemp <kemp@objectivepathology.com>
> *Cc: *<tiff@lists.maptools.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Tiff] LZ4 compression

On vendredi 11 mai 2018 07:15:44 CEST Kemp Watson wrote:

Even, might I ask where the compression tag is registered?

As there is apparently no one no longer in charge of the maintenance of the registry, I'd consider that the registration is: https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/blob/master/libtiff/tiff.h#L191

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