2004.04.15 00:26 "[Tiff] Large TIFF files", by Lynn Quam

2004.04.22 18:43 "Re: [Tiff] Large TIFF files", by Chris Cox

Of course, that brings up the question: do we still need to support two byte orders?

In my experiments, reading from the disk always swamped the time needed to swap byte order - so there is no noticable impact from using a fixed byte order and forcing conversion on one platform the other.

I suggest that network byte order (big endian) be used. Especially if any Big TIFF variant will go before the IETF for RFC approval.

OK - I was going to hold back the standards discussion for later.... But yes, that's another reason to go with a single byte order.

Chris