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Subject: Re: [Tiff] eta for bigtiff support?
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On 15-Jan-10, at 12:00 PM, tiff-request@lists.maptools.org wrote:
> What's wrong with "image/tiff" and "TIF"? GIF doesn't have different
> MIME types and extensions for its different versions.


This has been debated before, and probably will be debated
again, but my opinion is that a new file type is needed.

Technically, according to the TIFF 6 specification, the 0x002a
in the TIFF header is a file identifier.  So this can not
be used as a version number because any file with a different
number is not a TIFF file according to the specification.

This is different than GIF, which defined "87a" as a version number
in the original specification.

	- Phil

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