Media type review requested for audio/vorbis and audio/vorbis-config

[Colin Perkins]

On 11 Jun 2007, at 15:40, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * Colin Perkins wrote:
>> The AVT working group requests media type review of the audio/vorbis
>> and audio/vorbis-config media types, defined in section 6 of draft-
>> ietf-avt-rtp-vorbis-05.txt. This draft is currently in working group
>> last call, and we would appreciate comments by 25th June 2007.
>
> It seems a very bad idea to me to take the "audio/vorbis"  
> identifier but
> define the type only for RTP and require specification of  
> parameters un-
> likely to be specified with other transports, specifically as the x- 
> type
> audio/x-vorbis is already in use http://validator.annodex.org/ 
> about.html
>
> Could you comment on the possibility to define the type in a manner  
> that
> would make it suitable for other transports, HTTP in particular, or on
> using a different type, like audio/rtp-vorbis, for the RTP-specific  
> one?

I'm not the author, but if I understood correctly, Vorbis for non-RTP  
use should be framed within an Ogg container with media type  
application/ogg.

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Colin Perkins
http://csperkins.org/