RFC 3745 (rfc3745) - Page 1 of 14
MIME Type Registrations for JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444)
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Network Working Group D. Singer
Request for Comments: 3745 Apple Computer
Category: Standards Track R. Clark
Elysium Ltd
D. Lee
Yahoo Inc.
April 2004
MIME Type Registrations for JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document serves to register and document the standard MIME types
associated with the ISO/IEC 15444 standards, commonly known as JPEG
2000 (Joint Photographic Experts Group).
1. Introduction
This document describes the registration of the MIME [MIME1] sub-
types image/jp2, video/mj2, image/jpx, and image/jpm. The image
encoding is defined by [ISO-JPEG2000-1].
The still image file format to which this document refers is defined
in Annex I of [ISO-JPEG2000-1]. Note that a file format is optional
in [ISO-JPEG2000-1], but mandatory for the MIME sub-type. This
document is not related to the definition of the MIME sub-type
image/jpeg, which is partly defined by [ISO-JPEG-1], and partly by
the file format specification defined in [JFIF].
JPEG 2000 is a new standard, intended to create a image coding system
for many types of still images (bi-level, gray-level, color, multi-
component) with different characteristics (natural images,
scientific, medical, remote sensing, imagery, text, rendered
graphics, etc.) allowing different imaging models (client/server,
real-time transmission, image library archival, limited buffer and
Singer, et al. Standards Track