Network Working Group D. Singer
Request for Comments: 3745 Apple Computer
Category: Standards Track R. Clark
Elysium Ltd
D. Lee
Yahoo Inc.
April 2004
MIME Type Registrations for JPEG 2000 (ISO/IEC 15444)
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
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Abstract
This document serves to register and document the standard MIME types
associated with the ISO/IEC 15444 standards, commonly known as JPEG
2000 (Joint Photographic Experts Group).
1. Introduction
This document describes the registration of the MIME [MIME1] sub-
types image/jp2, video/mj2, image/jpx, and image/jpm. The image
encoding is defined by [ISO-JPEG2000-1].
The still image file format to which this document refers is defined
in Annex I of [ISO-JPEG2000-1]. Note that a file format is optional
in [ISO-JPEG2000-1], but mandatory for the MIME sub-type. This
document is not related to the definition of the MIME sub-type
image/jpeg, which is partly defined by [ISO-JPEG-1], and partly by
the file format specification defined in [JFIF].
JPEG 2000 is a new standard, intended to create a image coding system
for many types of still images (bi-level, gray-level, color, multi-
component) with different characteristics (natural images,
scientific, medical, remote sensing, imagery, text, rendered
graphics, etc.) allowing different imaging models (client/server,
real-time transmission, image library archival, limited buffer and
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bandwidth resources, etc.) within a unified system. This coding
system is intended to provide low bit-rate operation with rate-
distortion and subjective image quality performance superior to
existing standards, without sacrificing performance at other points
in the rate-distortion spectrum.
This standard is intended to serve still image compression needs that
are currently not served by the current JPEG standards [ISO-JPEG-1],
[ISO-JPEG-2], [ISO-JPEG-3], and [ISO-JPEG-4], and is intended to
compliment, not replace, the current JPEG standards. JPEG 2000 is a
modern wavelet-based codec that is expected to be widely used for
still images. Its use for motion sequences is expected to be similar
to JPEG: in those environments where only a single codec is
required, and JPEG 2000 is available (e.g., digital still cameras
recording short motion sequences) or where frame-by-frame coding is
desired (no inter-frame coding).
There is a standard file format for Motion JPEG 2000 sequences. This
file format permits the carriage of audio in addition to the video.
The format is derived from the ISO Base Media File Format as defined
in [ISO-JPEG2000-12]. The visual coder in a Motion JPEG 2000 file is
JPEG 2000. The Motion JPEG 2000 standard is specified in [ISO-
JPEG2000-3]. The ISO Base Media File Format is jointly maintained by
the ISO/IEC JPEG and MPEG committees. The MP4 format is also derived
from the ISO Base Media File Format.
Therefore, to identify this restricted usage, a new mime type is
desirable.
This file type is intended always to contain a video sequence, though
simple audio is permitted in addition to the video. Therefore it
falls correctly under the "video" branch of mime types.
Also within WG1 of ISO there is an effort underway to define a
standard file format for Compound Images. This file format
optionally supports other coding systems, in addition to JPEG 2000,
as needed.
2. JPEG 2000 Definition
JPEG 2000 is defined in detail in [ISO-JPEG2000-1]. The
documentation can be obtained from any national standards body or
from ISO at http://www.iso.ch.
Information as to its latest status, and downloads of the initial
documents and some supporting documentation are available through the
JPEG committee's official Web site at http://www.jpeg.org.
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While a brief scope and feature description is provided in this
section as background information, the reader is directed to the
original JPEG 2000 specification [ISO-JPEG2000-1] to obtain complete
feature and technical details.
2.1. JPEG 2000 Scope
JPEG 2000 is used to compress image data that typically comes from
digital cameras, scanners, frame grabbers, complex image capture
devices such as medical or satellite systems, and paint- and photo-
retouching programs. Unlike previous JPEG standards, it includes
information necessary to allow its use as a complete coding
architecture. [ISO-JPEG2000-1] defines a set of lossless (bit-
preserving) and lossy compression methods for coding continuous-tone,
bi-level, gray-scale, or colour digital still images. It therefore:
- specifies decoding processes for converting compressed image data
to reconstructed image data;
- specifies a codestream syntax containing information for
interpreting the compressed image data;
- specifies a file format;
- provides guidance on encoding processes for converting source
image data to compressed image data;
- provides guidance on how to implement these processes in practice.
[ISO-JPEG2000-1] is one of a series of standards which will cover the
full range of facilities the new architecture is intended to offer.
Approval has been given for JPEG to develop the following documents
in addition to [ISO-JPEG2000-1].
- Part 2 - Coding extensions [ISO-JPEG2000-2]. This includes a more
comprehensive file format and other extensions to the definitions
in [ISO-JPEG2000-1]. The mime sub-type image/jpx is recommended
to describe files based on this Part, and a separate RFC is
planned to describe this usage and its associated file extensions
of jpf and jpx.
- Part 3 - Motion JPEG 2000 [ISO-JPEG2000-3]. This provides
definitions of how the standard may be extended for use in
recording time series of JPEG 2000 images with associated metadata
such as audio objects. This document registers the mime sub-type
video/mj2 for motion JPEG 2000, with associated file extensions
mj2 and mjp2.
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- Part 4 - Conformance [ISO-JPEG2000-4]. This deals with testing of
equipment and systems claimed to conform to the JPEG 2000
standards.
- Part 5 - Reference software [ISO-JPEG2000-5]. This will provide
developers with a source of publicly available reference software.
Its role is envisaged as similar in concept to that played by the
Independent JPEG Group (IJG) in publicizing the current [ISO-
JPEG-1] standard.
- Part 6 - Compound Image File Format [ISO-JPEG2000-6]. This
describes a file format used to store compound documents using
JPEG 2000 compression. These may contain scanned images,
synthetic images or both. This work is based on the multi-layer
Mixed Raster Content (MRC) imaging model, defined in ITU-T T.44 |
ISO 16485. The mime sub-type image/jpm is recommended to describe
files based on this Part.
- Part 7 - Has been withdrawn
- Part 8 - JPSEC (Security aspects) [ISO-JPEG2000-8]. This provides
standardised tools and solutions in terms of specifications in
order to ensure the security of transaction, protection of
contents (IPR), and protection of technologies (IP), and to allow
applications to generate, consume, and exchange JPEG 2000 Secured
bitstreams.
- Part 9 - JPIP (Interactive protocols) [ISO-JPEG2000-9]. This
client-server protocol has been designed to exploit JPEG 2000's
flexibility with respect to random access, codestream reordering
and incremental decoding in a networked environment.
- Part 10 - JP3D (Volumetric imaging) [ISO-JPEG2000-10]. This will
provide extensions of JPEG 2000 for logically rectangular 3-
dimensional data sets with no time component.
- Part 11 - JPWL (Wireless applications) [ISO-JPEG2000-11]. This
extends the elements in [ISO-JPEG2000-1] with mechanisms for error
protection and correction.
- Part 12 - ISO Base Media File Format [ISO-JPEG2000-12]. This is
the part of the file format used by JPEG 2000 which is common with
that used within MPEG-4 [ISO-MPEG4].
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2.2. JPEG 2000 Features
Some of the features of JPEG 2000 include:
- JPEG 2000 is capable of describing bi-level, grayscale, palette-
color, and full-color image data in several color spaces.
- JPEG 2000 includes a number of compression schemes that allow
developers to choose the best space or time tradeoff for their
applications.
- JPEG 2000 is designed to be extensible and to evolve gracefully as
new needs arise.
- JPEG 2000 allows the inclusion of an unlimited amount of private
or special-purpose information within the metadata of its file
format.
- These are features that JPEG 2000 shares with the definition of
TIFF [RFC-TIFF]. In addition, JPEG 2000 offers:
- state of the art lossless and lossy compression, based on wavelet
technology, within a single codestream
- low bit-rate compression performance effective down to below 0.25
bits per pixel for high resolution gray-scale images
- large image handling (greater than 64k x 64k pixels) without
tiling
- single decompression architecture. The current JPEG standard
[ISO-JPEG-1] has 44 modes, many of which are application specific
and not used by the majority of JPEG decoders.
- features to improve transmission in noisy environments, for
example mobile radio / telephony
- capability to handle both natural and computer generated imagery
3. Security Considerations
JPEG 2000 utilizes a structure that can store image data, and
metadata corresponding to this image data. The fields defined in the
JPEG 2000 standards are of a descriptive nature and provide
information that may be useful to facilitate viewing, rendering and
cataloging of images by a recipient. As such, the fields currently
defined in the JPEG 2000 standards do not in themselves create
additional security risks, since the fields are not used to induce
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any particular behavior by the recipient application. It should be
noted that selected metadata fields may encompass information partly
intended to protect the image against unauthorized use or
distribution. In this case the intention is that alteration or
removal of the data in the field would be treated as an offense under
national agreements based World Intellectual Property Organization
(WIPO) treaties.
JPEG 2000 has an extensible structure, so that it is theoretically
possible that metadata fields could be defined in the future which
could be used to induce particular actions on the part of the
recipient, thus presenting additional security risks, but this type
of capability is currently not supported in the referenced JPEG 2000
specification.
Encryption, signing, or authentication of these file formats can use
mechanisms defined in [ISO-JPEG2000-8].
4. MIME Types
4.1. Still Image Registration
The image/jp2 content-type refers to all of the profiles and
extensions that build on JPEG 2000 [ISO-JPEG2000-1] encoded image
data. The file format is also defined in [ISO-JPEG2000-1], Annex I.
The recommended file suffix is "jp2"
To: ietf-types@iana.org
Subject: Registration of Standard MIME media type image/jp2
MIME media type name: image
MIME subtype name: jp2
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
It is up to the implementation to
determine the application (if
necessary) and render the image to
the user.
Encoding considerations: files are binary and should be
transmitted in a suitable encoding
without CR/LF conversion, 7-bit
stripping etc.; base64 is a suitable
encoding;
Security considerations: see above
Interoperability considerations: The ability of implementations to
handle all the defined applications
(or profiles within applications) of
JPEG 2000 may not be ubiquitous. As
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a result, implementations may decode
and attempt to display the encoded
JPEG 2000 image data only to
determine that the image cannot be
rendered either partially or in full.
Published specification: ISO/IEC 15444-1 defines the JPEG 2000
codec and the jp2 file format
Applications which use this media type: Imaging, fax, messaging and
multi-media
Additional information:
Magic number(s): 12 byte string: X'0000 000C 6A50 2020
0D0A 870A' (for all JPEG-2000 family
files)
File extension(s): jp2 and jpg2 are both declared at
http://www.nist.gov/nics/; jp2 is
preferred
Macintosh File Type Code(s): 'jp2 '
Person & email address to contact for further information:
JPEG Webmaster - mimesupport@jpeg.org
JPEG Convenor - convenor@jpeg.org
JPEG2000 Editor - J2KEditor@jpeg.org
Intended usage: COMMON
Change controller: JPEG Webmaster
4.2. Extended Still Image Registration
The image/jpx content-type refers to all of the profiles and
extensions that build on JPEG 2000 [ISO-JPEG2000-2] encoded image
data. The file format is also defined in [ISO-JPEG2000-2], Annex M.
The recommended file suffix is "jpf"
To: ietf-types@iana.org
Subject: Registration of Standard MIME media type image/jpx
MIME media type name: image
MIME subtype name: jpx
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
It is up to the implementation to
determine the application (if
necessary) and render the image to
the user.
Encoding considerations: files are binary and should be
transmitted in a suitable encoding
without CR/LF conversion, 7-bit
stripping etc.; base64 is a suitable
encoding;
Security considerations: see above
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Interoperability considerations: The ability of implementations to
handle all the defined applications
(or profiles within applications) of
JPEG 2000 may not be ubiquitous. As
a result, implementations may decode
and attempt to display the encoded
JPEG 2000 image data only to
determine that the image cannot be
rendered either partially or in full.
Published specification: ISO/IEC 15444-2, JPEG 2000 Extensions
Applications which use this media type: Imaging, fax, messaging and
multi-media
Additional information:
Magic number(s): 12 byte string: X'0000 000C 6A50 2020
0D0A 870A' (for all JPEG-2000 family
files)
File extension(s): jpf is declared at
http://www.nist.gov/nics/. jpx is
also an acceptable file extension,
although it is not recommended for
files on a desktop computer that are
not directly associated with a MIME
media type
Macintosh File Type Code(s): 'jpx '
Person & email address to contact for further information:
JPEG Webmaster - mimesupport@jpeg.org
JPEG Convenor - convenor@jpeg.org
JPEG 2000 Editor - J2KEditor@jpeg.org
Intended usage: COMMON
Change controller: JPEG Webmaster
4.3. Motion Registration
MIME media type name: video
MIME subtype name: mj2
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
Encoding considerations: files are binary and should be
transmitted in a suitable encoding
without CR/LF conversion, 7-bit
stripping etc.; base64 is a suitable
encoding;
Security considerations: see above
Interoperability considerations: A number of interoperating
implementations exist within the
MPEG-4 community with the formats
derived from the ISO Base Media File
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Format; and that community has
reference software for reading and
writing the file format. Reference
software for MJP2 is also available.
Published specification: ISO/IEC 15444-3, Motion JPEG 2000
Applications: Multimedia
Additional information:
Magic number(s): 12 byte string: X'0000 000C 6A50 2020
0D0A 870A' (for all JPEG-2000 family
files)
File extension(s): mj2 and mjp2 are both declared at
http://www.nist.gov/nics/; mj2 is
preferred
Macintosh File Type Code(s): mjp2 is registered with Apple
Person to contact for info: David Singer, singer@apple.com
Intended usage: Common
Author/Change controller: David Singer, MJP2 file format editor
4.4. Compound Image Registration
The image/jpm content-type refers to all of the profiles and
extensions that build on JPEG 2000 [ISO-JPEG2000-1] encoded image
data. The file format is also defined in [ISO-JPEG2000-6]. The
recommended file suffix is "jpm"
To: ietf-types@iana.org
Subject: Registration of Standard MIME media type image/jpm
MIME media type name: image
MIME subtype name: jpm
Required parameters: none
Optional parameters: none
It is up to the implementation to
determine the application (if
necessary) and render the image to
the user.
Encoding considerations: files are binary and should be
transmitted in a suitable encoding
without CR/LF conversion, 7-bit
stripping etc.; base64 is a suitable
encoding;
Security considerations: see above
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Interoperability considerations: A number of interoperating
implementations are under development
within the JPEG 2000 community.
Published specification: ISO/IEC 15444-6, JPEG 2000 Compound
Image File Format
Applications: Imaging, fax, messaging, scanning
Additional information:
Magic number(s): 12 byte string: X'0000 000C 6A50 2020
0D0A 870A' (for all JPEG-2000 family
files)
File extension(s): jpm and jpgm are both declared at
http://www.nist.gov/nics/; jpm is
preferred
Macintosh File Type Code(s): 'jpm '
Person & email address to contact for further information:
JPEG Webmaster - mimesupport@jpeg.org
JPEG Convenor - convenor@jpeg.org
JPEG 2000 Editor - J2KEditor@jpeg.org
Intended usage: COMMON
Change controller: JPEG Webmaster
5. IANA Considerations
This document registers the MIME types image/jp2, image/jpx,
video/mj2, and image/jpm, defined above.
6. Acknowledgments
This document has benefited greatly by contributions from many
people, including Eric Edwards and Takahiro Fukuhara. Their
contribution is gratefully acknowledged.
6. References
6.1. Normative References
[ISO-JPEG2000-1] ITU-T Recommendation T.800 | ISO/IEC 15444-1.
International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: Core Coding
System".
[ISO-JPEG2000-2] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: Extensions", IS
15444-2.
[ISO-JPEG2000-3] International Organization for Standardization,
"Motion JPEG 2000", IS 15444-3.
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[ISO-JPEG2000-6] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: Compound Image File
Format", IS 15444-6.
[ISO-JPEG2000-12] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: ISO base media file
format", IS 15444-12 (technically identical to
ISO/IEC 14496-12.
[MIME1] Freed, N. and n. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet
Mail Extensions [MIME] Part One: Format of Internet
Message Bodies", RFC 2045, November 1996.
6.2. Informative References
[ISO-JPEG2000-4] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: Conformance
Testing", IS 15444-4.
[ISO-JPEG2000-5] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: Reference
Software", IS 15444-5.
[ISO-JPEG2000-8] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: JPSEC - Secure JPEG
2000", IS 15444-8.
[ISO-JPEG2000-9] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: JPIP -
Interactivity tools, APIs and protocols", IS
15444-9.
[ISO-JPEG2000-10] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: JP3D - 3-D and
floating point data", IS 15444-10.
[ISO-JPEG2000-11] International Organization for Standardization,
"JPEG 2000 Image Coding System: JPWL - Wireless",
IS 15444-11.
[ISO-JPEG-1] ITU-T Recommendation T.81 | ISO/IEC 10918-1:1994,
Information technology - Digital compression and
coding of continuous-tone still images:
Requirements and guidelines.
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[ISO-JPEG-2] ITU-T Recommendation T.83 | ISO/IEC 10918-2:1995,
Information technology - Digital compression and
coding of continuous-tone still images: Compliance
testing.
[ISO-JPEG-3] ITU-T Recommendation T.84 | ISO/IEC 10918-3:1996,
Information technology - Digital compression and
coding of continuous-tone still images: Extensions.
[ISO-JPEG-4] ITU-T Recommendation T.86 | ISO/IEC 10918-4,
Information technology - Digital compression and
coding of continuous-tone still images:
Registration of JPEG Profiles, SPIFF Profiles,
SPIFF Tags, SPIFF colour Spaces, APPn Markers,
SPIFF, Compression types and Registration
authorities (REGAUT).
[JFIF] JPEG File Interchange Format, Version 1.02.
Published and made freely available by C-Cube
Microsystems. Corporate Communications, 1778
McCarthy Blvd., Milpitas, CA 95035
[RFC-TIFF] Parsons, G. and J. Rafferty, "Tag Image File Format
(TIFF) - image/tiff MIME Sub-type Registration",
RFC 3302, September 2002.
[ISO-MPEG4] ISO/IEC 14496, Information technology - Coding of
Audio-Visual Objects.
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7. Authors' Addresses
David Singer
Apple Computer, Inc.
One Infinite Loop, MS:302-3MT
Cupertino CA 95014
USA
Phone: +1 408 974 3162
EMail: singer@apple.com
Richard Clark (Current JPEG Webmaster)
Elysium Ltd
Milton House
Whitehill Road
Crowborough
East Sussex TN6 1LB
UK
Phone: +44 1892 667411
Fax: +44 1892 667433
EMail: richard@elysium.ltd.uk
Dr. Daniel T Lee (Current JPEG Convenor)
Yahoo!, Inc.
701, First Avenue
Sunnyvale,
California 94089,
USA
Phone: +1 408 349 7051
Fax: +1 253 830 0372
EMail: dlee@yahoo-inc.com
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