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Ogg Now An RFC

Posted by michael on from the tastes-great-less-filling dept.

Logic writes "The Ogg bitstream format (used by Ogg Vorbis) has been enshrined in RFC 3533, "The Ogg Encapsulation Format Version 0", for all you folks who won't look at something unless it has an RFC attached to it."

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  1. Ogg or OGG? by Euphonious+Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Why do the RFC page headers say "OGG" instead of "Ogg"? The headers in other RFCs aren't arbitrarily capitalized. It's hard enough convincing people that Ogg isn't an acronym without the RFC itself making our work harder.

    Can they fix this without issuing a new RFC number?

  2. Legalese cut-n-paste contradictions strike again! by Sparr0 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...

    Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

    ...

    Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved.

    ...

    This document and translations of it may be copied and furnished to others ... provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph are included on all such copies

    Sooo... is distribution one of those reserved "All Rights" or not? I think "All Rights Reserved" can be considered one of the most overused catch phrases of the last 20 years. Not only is it used in a contradictory manner like here, but somehow the MPAA and RIAA and software industry seem to think they really can reserve ALL rights instead of just their exclusive ones.

  3. Re:Request For Comments by Greger47 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No, thats the way it is by design.

    IETF doesn't standardize anything untill it is finished, complete with reference implementations.

    Heres a good writeup: The Internet Engineering Task Force