PHK and others make good points, but I’m still trying to get past the
"binary-file equivalent of XML”. I doubt this is worth much more investigation
from this group, but in addition to git:
https://github.com/Matroska-Org/ebml-specification
there are a few links from the wikipedia page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Binary_Meta_Language
including something resembling an RFC from at least as early as 2004. Nobody
appears to have written an actual RFC during that decade. The git repository
appears recent. One suspects this is just somebody noodling around. Meanwhile
there are other RFCs on binary time representation:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4049
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6019
And on efficient (however you want to interpret that word) binary
representation in general:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7049
Including wrapping back around to the ITU:
http://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/asn1/Pages/introduction.aspx
No surprise that time itself was an early internet discussion point, albeit
with more questions than answers:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc28
Rob
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