Re: CFD: eXIf 2017-05-31

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 1:10 AM, Cosmin Truta <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not sweating too much over this. If we can replace this word from
> the CFD to the CFV (without going through another CFD round), great. I
> personally find it useful to have EXIF profiles larger than 64KB, for
> example, to be able to store the preview image (which is different
> than, and larger than the thumbnail image) inside EXIF, rather than
> outside. Storing the preview outside EXIF leaves a dangling pointer
> inside EXIF. Not a problem with TIFF, but a problem with JPEG. By
> imposing this limit in PNG, then PNG would inherit the same problem as
> JPEG. Changing the above two words from "must" to "should" would
> resolve this problem.

I agree.  The phrase should say

    "should not exceed 64 kbytes, so it could fit into a JPEG APP1 marker"

I think under the 2007 voting rules this would not require restarting
the CFD, but under the most recent proposed rules, it would require
a new CFD (and consequently an 8-day delay).  I can live with either.

Glenn

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