RE: "Let the market decide" is a flawed concept

What do you suggest we do in this instance?

Personally, I see no advantage to indicating "image/tiff-fx" if
the TIFF attachment is only Profile F or S, which are defined
as "image/tiff".  In fact, I see only interoperational
difficulties by sending a Profile F or S TIFF file marked with
"image/tiff-fx" to receivers that are only capable of receiving
"image/tiff".


As to fragmentation, there is the additional issue of Adobe's
IPR position regarding TIFF-FX as defined in the RFCs.  This
will create fragmentation as well, as some companies may decide
to avoid TIFF-FX.

-d

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mac [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 6:56 PM
> To: Dan Wing; McIntyre, Lloyd; Hiroshi Tamura
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected];
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> Subject: "Let the market decide" is a flawed concept
>
>
> One lesson learned from rapporteurship of G3bis - you must anticipate what
> the market
> will adopt, do it together and do it right. Else you will fragment your
> market and
> it will form critical mass elsewhere.
>                                               ---  Don
>
>
> 05:21 PM 28/12/01 -0800, Dan Wing wrote:
>
> > > Yes, the above is true.
> > > One could perceive a future where viewers of more efficient
> > > encodings become
> > > dominant and use the need to use two MIME content-types becomes
> > > unnecessary.
> >
> >Sure.
> >
> > > > > If you you're only sending Profile S or F, I don't see a
> > > > need to "scare"
> > > > > a receiver into thinking you're sending a higher-complexity TIFF.
> > > > >
> > > > > So, I would recommend striking the last sentence above and
> > > > replacing it
> > > > > with:
> > > > >
> > > > >   To achieve the highest amount of interworking with devices only
> > > > >   capable of rendering Profile S or F, "image/tiff-fx" SHOULD NOT
> > > > >   be used for Profile S or F; rather, "image/tiff" SHOULD be used.
> > > I do not support striking the last sentence.
> > > It may, however, be reasonable to add a note that captures the intent
> > > without conveying a message that it is never appropriate to use
> > > image/tiff-fx.
> > >
> > >     To maximize interworking with devices that are only capable of
> > >     rendering Profile S or F, "image/tiff" SHOULD be used when
> > >     transporting Profile S or F.
> >
> >That wording sounds great.
> >
> >-d
>