Re: Packaging Review

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:11:49 -0500
"Siegman, Tzviya - Hoboken" <tsiegman@wiley.com> wrote:

> Note that the document itself includes some issues as open questions. We might wish to offer our thoughts on those issues.

I think that would be a good idea.

Some thoughts I had when looking at the TAG document included...

* The lack of a byte-oriented table of contents means no ability to use HTTP Range to fetch an individual item, or to fetch multiple parts in parallel (consider a 3-hour long video with text captions in a following part)

* Similarly you can't easily extract individual items, hence might not be suitable for storing an ebook on disk (you _can_ do that with zip)


Liam



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