The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The Codecs and Profiles Parameters for "Bucket" Media Types' (draft-gellens-mime-bucket-bis-09.txt) as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Pete Resnick. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-gellens-mime-bucket-bis/ Technical Summary Several MIME type/subtype combinations exist that can contain different media formats. A receiving agent thus needs to examine the details of such media content to determine if the specific elements can be rendered given an available set of codecs. Especially when the end system has limited resources, or the connection to the end system has limited bandwidth, it is helpful to know from the Content- Type alone if the content can be rendered. This document specifies two parameters, "codecs" and "profiles", which are used with various MIME types or type/subtype combinations to allow for unambiguous specification of the codecs and/or profiles employed by the media formats contained within. This document obsoletes RFC 4281; RFC 4281 defines the "codecs" parameter, which this document retains in a backwards compatible manner with minor clarifications; the "profiles" parameter is added by this document. Working Group Summary This document is not the product of a WG. It was reviewed by the Apps Review Team and got external review in MPEG DASH, the MPEG file format group, 3GPP SA4 and its equivalent 3GPP2 group, internal review by the Quicktime team at Apple, and comments from the MPEG21 chair. Document Quality The MPEG DASH spec relies on this mechanism, but there are no known implementations to date. Personnel Pete Resnick <presnick@qualcomm.com> is shepherd and AD. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
