Standards Track L. Walleij Internet-Draft The Ogg Vorbis Community Expires: July 2, 2003 Jan 2003 The application/ogg Media Type draft-walleij-ogg-mediatype-08 Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http:// www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on July 2, 2003. Copyright Notice Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003). All Rights Reserved. Abstract The Ogg Bitstream Format aims at becoming a general, freely- available standard for transporting multimedia content across computing platforms and networks. The intention of this document is to define the MIME media type application/ogg to refer to this kind of content when transported across the Internet. It is the intention of the Ogg Bitstream Format developers that it be usable without intellectual property concerns. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2]. Walleij Expires July 2, 2003 [Page 1] Internet-Draft The application/ogg Media Type Jan 2003 1. The Ogg Bitstream Format The Ogg Bitstream format has been developed as a part of a larger project aimed at creating a set of components for the coding and decoding of multimedia content (codecs) which are to be freely available and freely re-implementable both in software and in hardware for the computing community at large, including the Internet community. Raw packets from these codecs may be used directly by transport mechanisms that provide their own framing and packet-separation mechanisms (such as UDP datagrams). One such framing and content-separation mechanism is the real-time transport protocol (RTP). RTP allows the streaming of syncronous lossy data for broadcasting and similar purposes. Should this functionality be desired, a separate RTP wrapping mechanism should be used, and such a mechanism is currently under development. For stream based storage (such as files) and transport (such as TCP streams or pipes), Ogg codecs use the Ogg Bitstream Format to provide framing/sync, sync recapture after error, landmarks during seeking, and enough information to properly seperate data back into packets at the original packet boundaries without relying on decoding to find packet boundaries. The application/ogg MIME type refers to this kind of bitstreams, when no further knowledge of the bitstream content exists. The bitstream format in itself is documented in [1]. Walleij Expires July 2, 2003 [Page 2] Internet-Draft The application/ogg Media Type Jan 2003 2. Registration Information To: ietf-types@iana.org Subject: Registration of MIME media type application/ogg MIME media type name: application MIME subtype name: ogg Required parameters: none Optional parameters: none Encoding Considerations: The Ogg bitstream format is binary data, and must be encoded for non-binary transport; the Base64 encoding is suitable for Email, Binary encoding could also be used. Security Considerations: As the Ogg bitstream file is a container format and only a carrier of content (such as Vorbis audio) with a very rigid definition (see [1]), this format in itself is not more vulnerable than any other content framing mechanism. The main security consideration for the receiving application is to ensure that manipulated packages can not cause buffer overflows and the like. It is possible to encapsulate even executable content in the bitstream, so for such uses additional security considerations must be taken. Ogg bitstream files are not signed or encrypted using any applicable encryption schemes. External security mechanisms must be added if content confidentiality and authenticity is to be achieved. Interoperability considerations: The Ogg bitstream format has proved to be widely implementable across different computing platforms. A broadly portable reference implementation is available under a BSD license. The Ogg bitstream format is not patented and can be implemented by third parties without patent considerations. Published specification: See [1]. Walleij Expires July 2, 2003 [Page 3] Internet-Draft The application/ogg Media Type Jan 2003 Applications which use this media type: Any application that implements the specification will be able to encode or decode Ogg bitstream files. Specifically, the format is supposed to be used by subcodecs that implement for example Vorbis audio. Additional information: Magic number(s): In Ogg bitstream files, the first four bytes are 0x4f 0x67 0x67 0x53 corresponding to the string "OggS". File extension: .ogg Macintosh File Type Code(s): OggS Object Identifier(s) or OID(s): none Person & email address to contact for further information: Questions about this proposal should be directed to Linus Walleij . Technical questions about the Ogg bitstream standard may be asked on the mailing lists for the developer community. Intended usage: COMMON Author/Change controller: This document was written by Linus Walleij , changes of this document will be handled by him or a representative of the Xiph.org or the associated development communities. The Ogg bitstream format is controlled by the Xiph.org and the respective development communities. Walleij Expires July 2, 2003 [Page 4] Internet-Draft The application/ogg Media Type Jan 2003 3. Security Considerations Security considerations are discussed in the security considerations clause of the MIME registration in section 2. Walleij Expires July 2, 2003 [Page 5] Internet-Draft The application/ogg Media Type Jan 2003 References [1] Pfeiffer, S., "The Ogg encapsulation format version 0", Internet-Draft XXXX, November 2002. [2] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. Author's Address Linus Walleij The Ogg Vorbis Community Master Olofs Vag 24 Lund 224 66 SE Phone: +46 703 193678 EMail: triad@df.lth.se URI: http://www.xiph.org/ Walleij Expires July 2, 2003 [Page 6] Internet-Draft The application/ogg Media Type Jan 2003 Intellectual Property Statement The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any intellectual property or other rights that might be claimed to pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in this document or the extent to which any license under such rights might or might not be available; neither does it represent that it has made any effort to identify any such rights. Information on the IETF's procedures with respect to rights in standards-track and standards-related documentation can be found in BCP-11. 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