RFC 3534 (rfc3534) - Page 1 of 6
The application/ogg Media Type
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Network Working Group L. Walleij
Request for Comments: 3534 The Ogg Vorbis Community
Category: Standards Track May 2003
The application/ogg Media Type
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 (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.
Conventions used in this Document
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].
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).
Walleij Standards Track