Re: TIFF-FX: technical changes since RFC 2301

ned,

since I asked the question(s), I'll respond to Ned's suggestions:


Saturday, December 21, 2002, 8:57:33 AM, you wrote:
>> Presumably there is a good reason to have tiff-fx contain this redundant
>> capability.  So, presumably, there are times when it IS a good thing to use?

ned> I wouldn't call it a good thing but I can see some theoretical situations where
ned> it might be necessary. For example, suppose you have an agent that sends out a
ned> MIME object in serial fashion but which doesn't know initially which profile of
ned> TIFF will be used.

hence this argues in favor of having tiff-fx be a superset of tiff.

that makes sense to me, except how can an agent not know which profile of
TIFF it is using, at the start of the MIME body-part? Doesn't it need to
provide the profile information right at the beginning of the body-part
content?


ned> Perhaps something along the lines of tiff-fx SHOULD NOT be used to label
ned> profiles S and F except when the specific profile isn't available to the
ned> labelling agent.

right.


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