[vorbis] Re: PROPOSAL: Sub-Tagging

Jonathan Walther krooger at debian.org
Sat Dec 8 16:33:31 PST 2001


On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 01:23:05AM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>> I have heard the argument on IRC that "if we allow 24 tags, soon people
>> will require a jillion more, and who wants to support that?"
>> 
>> To those people I lay out a challenge:  find 20 more tags that meet the
>> stated goals of the standard, and are not synonyms for tags already in
>> the standard.  At that point I will admit the proposed standard is a
>> fool's errand and will pack it up and go home.  Until then, I am not
>> convinced.  I think the 24 tags in the standard cover every conceivable
>> case.
>
>To quote from the standard:
>20 more useful and different tags?  Let's do 26:

Your reply is admittedly humorous. :-) And it was nice of you to quote things
from the proposed standard that are not actually in the proposed
standard at all.

The challenge still stands.  In case you missed it and made an honest
mistake, the url again is:

https://209.53.17.13/~djw/ogg-tags.txt

Jonathan

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