[WF-Protocols] Proposals on common format

[Aglanor]

On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 23:04, Killemov wrote:

> Reality check: The IFF format has been a proposed standard since 1985!
> 
> http://www.newtek.com/products/lightwave/developer/75lwsdk/docs/filefmts/eaiff85.html

	Very interesting read! I found quite insightful the first part about
standards, specially this line: ;)

	The IFF philosophy: "A little behind-the-scenes conversion when
programs read and write files is far better than NxM explicit conversion
utilities for highly specialized formats."

	Seems IFF or derivated is the format of choice for binary. Jorrit, a
DOM-model based binary is compatible with such a thing or do you think
it would be essentially incompatible?

	I'm wrapping up all the proposed file layouts on a summary mail. BTW,
perhaps we could start defining what we want to see in the model format,
and after having some requirements (for instance for meshes and
submeshes) it would help in the decision on the layout.

	Regards,

	Aglanor