Leonard, where is the Adobe TIFFtag registry? It's been AWOL for years,
good to hear it still exists...

W. Kemp Watson, Managing Director
Objective Pathology Services Limited
Toronto, Canada


On Mon, 2 Mar 2026 at 13:51, Leonard Rosenthol via Tiff <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, the C2PA TIFF tag is registered with Adobe and specific details on
> TIFF embedding at
> https://spec.c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.3/specs/C2PA_Specification.html#_embedding_manifests_into_tiff_based_assets
>
> TIFF already supports using IFDs for things other than images - consider
> ICC profiles, for example.
>
> Leonard
>
> *From: *Even Rouault <[email protected]>
> *Date: *Monday, March 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
> *To: *Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]>, [email protected] <
> [email protected]>
> *Subject: *Re: [Tiff] Libtiff failing on TIFFs with embedded C2PA
> Manifests?
>
> *EXTERNAL: Use caution when clicking on links or opening attachments.*
>
>
> Seems to me like a weird design to hijack a IFD (*Image* File Directory)
> to put something different in it. Why not having used a TIFF tag in the
> first IFD for example ? But I assume my question is mostly moot now if that
> C2PA spec has progressed beyond being a draft?
>
> I guess if someone wanted those files to be read by libtiff, the best
> course of action would be to silently ignore that final IFD, or just emit a
> warning instead of an error ( I assume there must be a spefic TIFF tag to
> recognize it?)
>
> Even
> Le 02/03/2026 à 19:30, Leonard Rosenthol via Tiff a écrit :
>
> A person reported (https://github.com/contentauth/c2pa-rs/issues/1894)
> that libtiff-based apps are failing to process TIFF files with embedded
> C2PA Manifests (
> https://c2pa.org/specifications/specifications/2.3/specs/C2PA_Specification.html).
>  I’ve commented there that I don’t agree with their position on the
> topic, nor can I verify their results.
>
> Would love for any/all of you to comment on the situation - either here or
> there.
>
> Thanks,
> Leonard
>
>
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