This is my previous conversation with Colin Perkins at IETF regarding
audio/vorbis. For interested parties. Last two paragraphs are the most
interesting ones.
Linus
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From: Colin Perkins <csp@isi.edu>
To: Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se>
Subject: Re: Regarding non-streaming Ogg
Date: 20 Jun 2001 16:17:34 -0400
--> Linus Walleij writes:>Colin,
>
>regarding application/ogg, draft-walleij-ogg-mediatype-02.txt which is not
>subject to streaming issues like the audio/vorbis, could this draft be
>advanced to be a proposed standard on the standards track? This would be
>good since it provides a fallback MIME type for downloading .ogg files off
>webservers for example.
Provided that it explains that it is not for streaming, and that another
format is in development, then I don't see why not.
>Regarding the audio/vorbis type, is it correct that from now on, the same
>MIME type is to be used for sockets and streaming, so that audio/vorbis is
>the MIME type in both cases? I was confused when reading through the
>drafts and seeing that the content usually denoted as audio/mpeg becomes
>audio/MPA under RTP for example.
Yes. The audio/mpa vs. audio/mpeg thing is the result of combining two
previously separate namespaces, and not something we should emulate in
new formats.
Colin
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