Graham Klyne (GK@dial.pipex.com)
Thu, 12 Aug 1999 19:54:24 +0100
At 11:12 12/08/99 -0500, Glenn Parsons wrote:
>> > I think it's certainly relevant to the general issue of using WAVE
>> files,
>> > but it does not contain the audio/wav type registration,
>>
>> there is no need to register audio/wav, as the format has already
>> been registered as a vendor-specific format in the document i forwarded.
>>
>Informational RFC 2361 contains the WAVE registry (this is Microsoft Windows
>specific) and defines audio/vnd.wave as its associated MIME content type.
>
>It DOES NOT define any aspects of audio/wav. I beleive that is what we are
>trying to do here. The goal is to get to as many desktops as possible and
>thus use an already commonly understood format, aka audio/wav. We want to
>create a standards track document that tries to layout the current use.
>
>This is quite similar to the Fax WGs effort with image/tiff.
Glenn,
Thank you for that observation. I think I now understand the nature of the
miscommunication.
I believe Philipp was referring to the Microsoft WAVE registry, and I have
no argument with him in that respect.
I was referring the the "IANA registration of MIME content-type audio/wav",
which is a different matter.
#g
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Graham Klyne
(GK@ACM.ORG)
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