Subject: [Cellar] an abstract for EBML

From: Dave Rice <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 19:54:34 -0400

In order to quiet some issues in the RFC submission process I added a pull request for an Abstract section of the EBML specification. There was an earlier thread regarding an Abstract for EBML but that developed into the Introduction section, whereas the Abstract section is similar to the Introduction section but more concise. Some info on this here: https://www.rfc-editor.org/old/policy.html#policy.abstract.

Here’s what I added:

## Abstract

This document defines the Extensible Binary Meta Language (EBML) format as a genearlized file format for any type of data in a hierarchical form. EBML is designed as a binary equivalent to XML and utilizes a storage-efficient approach to building nested Elements with identifiers, lengths, and values. Similar to how an XML Schema defines the structure and semantics of an XML Document, this document defines an EBML Schema to convey the semantics of an EBML Document.

The pull request is at https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification/pull/72.

Best Regards,
Dave Rice