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IETF Multiformats WG Charter
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IETF Multiformats WG Charter

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• URL: https://github.com/msporny/charter-ietf-multiformats
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• Created: 2023-03-29T15:54:40.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
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# IETF Multiformats Working Group

Multiformats are a collection of self-describing data formats that consist of an

inline data header and a data value. They are composable in that some of the

more complex forms take another multiformat header/value tuple as value,

recursively. Multiformats are designed to compose data into binary streams with

both inline header values (called [multicodecs][1]) and corresponding data

values, with the exception of multibase, which base-encodes any binary and

prepends its inline header to the target encoding rather than to the binary data

value being encoded.

The scope of this Working Group is to discuss these formats as they relate to

standardization at the IETF for wider and safer usage. Specifically, the group

is currently focused on the standardization of the two most generally-useful

multiformats: multibase and multihash. The input documents for these two

multiformats are:

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-multiformats-multibase/

* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-multiformats-multihash/

Outputs for the group will be:

1. An RFC specifying multibase usage

2. An RFC defining an independent multibase registry and populating it with

   today's already-implemented stable and final values

3. An RFC defining a registry-group for all the multicodecs, empty at

   inception, with registration process and group-wide constraints on

   registration values

4. An RFC specifying multihash usage

5. An RFC defining a multihash registry within the multicodecs registry group

   and populating it with today's already-implemented stable and final values

The outputs from this Working Group are currently being used by various groups,

including the W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group, W3C Decentralized

Identifiers Working Group, Conexxus Age Verification Working Group, W3C Dataset

Canonicalization and Hashing Working Group, GS1 Verifiable Credentials, and

online communities such as the W3C Credentials Community Group and

Interplanetary File System developer community. The Multiformats Working Group

will communicate progress and seek input and review from the Working Groups

listed in this section as well as other relevant groups as the work progresses.

Items that are out of scope for the group include:

* Standardizing other multiformats that are not explicitly listed in the

  charter.

* Creating or standardizing new data formats identified by a multicodec byte

  header.

* Determining whether one data format is better than another data format.

* Changing current multiformat header assignments in a way that breaks backward

  compatibility with production deployments.

[1]: https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmXec1jjwzxWJoNbxQF5KffL8q6hFXm9QwUGaa3wKGk6dT/#title=Multicodecs&src=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multiformats/multicodec/master/table.csv