ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 21000-9 First edition 2005-07-01 Information technology Multimedia framework (MPEG-21) - Part 9: File Format Technologies de I'information — Cadre multimedia (MPEG-21) - Partie 9: Format de fichier Reference number ISO/IEC 21000-9:2005(E) IEC ISo ?ISO/IEC2005 SO/EC21000-9:2005(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but shall not be edited unless the typefaces which are embedded are licensed to and installed on the computer performing the editing. In downloading this file, parties accept therein the respons bility of not infringing Adobe's licensing policy. The ISO Central Secretariat accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation parameters were optimized for printing. Every care has been taken to ensure that the file is suitable for use by IsO member bodies. In the unlikely event that a problem relating to it is found, please inform the Central Secretariat at the address given below. ? ISO/IEC2005 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, ISsO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56 : CH-1211 Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 4122 7490947 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ii @ISO/IEC 2005-Allrights reserved ISO/IEC 21000-9:2005(E) Foreword Commission) form the specialized system for worldwide standardization. National bodies that are members of IsO or IEC participate in the development of International Standards through technical committees established by the respective organization to deal with particular fields of technical activity. IsO and IEC and non-governmental, in liaison with ISO and IEC, also take part in the work. In the field of information technology, ISO and IEC have established a joint technical committee, ISO/IEC JTC 1. International Standards are drafted in accordance with the rules given in the ISO/lEC Directives, Part 2 The main task of the joint technical committee is to prepare International Standards. Draft International Standards adopted by the joint technical committee are circulated to national bodies for voting. Publication as Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. Subcommittee SC 29, Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia information. IsO/lEc 21000 consists of the following parts, under the general title Information technology - Multimedia framework (MPEG-21): Part 1: Vision, Technologies and Strategy Part 2: Digital Item Declaration Part3:Digital ItemIdentification Part 5: Rights Expression Language Part 6: Rights Data Dictionary Part 7: Digital Item Adaptation Part 8: Reference Software Part 9: File Format Part 10: Digital Item Processing Part 11: Evaluation Tools for Persistent Association Technologies Part 12:Test Bed for MPEG-21 ResourceDelivery Part 16: Binary Format The following parts are under preparation: Part 4: Intellectual Property Management and Protection Components Part 15: Event Reporting @ ISO/IEc 2005 - All rights reserved ili ISO/IEC 21000-9:2005(E) Introduction The MPEG-21 File Format is designed to contain a base MPEG-21 XML document with some or all of its It is forms part of a family of specifications which are box-structured, and is built using tools in from the IsO (untimed meta-data) and MPEG-21 integrated document handling. iv @ISO/IEC 2005-Allrights reserved INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO/IEC 21000-9:2005(E) Information technology Multimedia framework (MPEG-21) - Part 9: File Format 1 Scope This International Standard s