[ObsCoreRFC]Minutes of the telco Monday June 6

[Rob Seaman]

On Jul 5, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Arnold Rots wrote:

> It still leaves a similar issue for the access format: that would be
> tar, but it would be nice to be able to enumerate the formats of the
> files in the tarfile in a similar format subtype - that also would
> allow one to indicate whether or not the content of the the tarfile is
> gzipped (as opposed to gzipping the tarfile itself).

Could we please not assume that gzip is a magic Harry Potter shrinking spell, appropriate for all data types?  Suggest support for tag/keyword/field/whatever to indicate a per-file compression algorithm/protocol/scheme.

Rob