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

[Chris Lilley]

On Monday, June 11, 2007, 4:40:13 PM, Bjoern wrote:

BH> * 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.

BH> It seems a very bad idea to me to take the "audio/vorbis" identifier but
BH> define the type only for RTP 

I agree; I am unhappy in general with transport-specific types but have previously been told that types registered for use with RTP "don't make sense" for other transports.

Although, application/ogg seems to be the usual media type for both ogg vorbis audio and ogg theora video; the media type indicates the container format. 
 
BH> and require specification of parameters un-
BH> likely to be specified with other transports, specifically as the x-type
BH> audio/x-vorbis is already in use
BH> http://validator.annodex.org/about.html

BH> Could you comment on the possibility to define the type in a manner that
BH> would make it suitable for other transports, HTTP in particular, or on
BH> using a different type, like audio/rtp-vorbis, for the RTP-specific one?




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