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- > What methodology do you propose to prevent this situation?
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- * TIFF images are frequently restricted by the TIFF class (Class F,
- B, and NetFax) by which recipients. Rather than merely identifying
- the archive as 'tiff' it seems feasible to be more specific.
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- * If you register a format name, then the name should be linked to a
- well known, published, dated version of the specification of those
- formats, and not to any possible future currently-unspecified even
- if upwardly-compatible extension. That is, if you insist that the
- format be called 'postscript', then it should be restricted to
- 'postscript' as known at the time of the definition of the standard.
- Perhaps the situation with postscript is hopeless, but it isn't with
- either 'rich text' or 'gif' or a number of 'audio' representations.
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- Part of the problem is that the very weakness of 'postscript' as an
- interchange format is overly influencing your position. It may well be
- that carousel will dominate postscript as a printable representation
- exactly because Adobe finally is addressing some of the interchange
- issues.
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