The IESG has approved the Internet-Draft 'The application/ogg Media
Type' <draft-walleij-ogg-mediatype-08.txt> as a Proposed Standard.
This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF
Working Group.
The IESG contact persons are Allison Mankin and Scott Bradner.
Technical Summary
The Ogg Bitstream Format aims at becoming a general, freely-
available standard for transporting multimedia content across
computing platforms and networks. For details of the bitstream
format, see: http://xiph.org/ogg/doc/oggstream.html. The format
is a container for streaming data of varied types. For these,
ogg codecs use the format to provide framing/sync, sync recapture
after error, landmarks during seeking, and enough information to
properly separate data back into packets at the original packet
boundaries without relying on decoding to find packet boundaries.
This kind of bitstream differs from the data carried by RTP, but
a compatibility mechanism is in development.
The application/ogg MIME type refers to Ogg Bitstream Format
bitstreams, when no further knowledge of the bitstream content
exists. This specification defines and requests registration of
the MIME media type application/ogg to refer to this kind of
content when transported across the Internet.
Working Group Summary
This specification is an individual submission. No technical
issues were raised and support for publication was expressed
during the one month IETF Last Call.
Protocol Quality
Allison Mankin and Ned Freed reviewed the specification for the
IESG. It was also given a review by Colin Perkins.
RFC Editor Note:
Please make the following change to the References:
Old:
[1] Pfeiffer, S., "The Ogg encapsulation format version 0",
Internet-Draft XXXX, November 2002.
New:
[1] Pfeiffer, S., "The Ogg encapsulation format version 0",
draft-pfeiffer-ogg-fileformat-01.txt (Work-in-Progress)
