Internet Imaging Protocol
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The Internet Imaging Protocol, or IIP, is an Internet protocol
designed by the International Imaging Industry Association
. IIP is built on top of HTTP to communicate images and their metadata
and takes advantage of the FlashPix
image architecture.
It is currently in version 1.05.
Internet Protocol
The Internet Protocol is the principal communications protocol used for relaying datagrams across an internetwork using the Internet Protocol Suite...
designed by the International Imaging Industry Association
International Imaging Industry Association
The International Imaging Industry Association was created by a merger of the PIMA and the Digital Imaging Group in 2001. It is a common forum for the industrial imaging industry....
. IIP is built on top of HTTP to communicate images and their metadata
Metadata
The term metadata is an ambiguous term which is used for two fundamentally different concepts . Although the expression "data about data" is often used, it does not apply to both in the same way. Structural metadata, the design and specification of data structures, cannot be about data, because at...
and takes advantage of the FlashPix
FlashPix
FlashPix is a bitmapped computer graphics file format where the image is saved in more than one resolution. Though this makes it larger even than a TIFF file, when a request is sent for the file by a Web browser only the resolution required for the current screen resolution is sent to the browser;...
image architecture.
It is currently in version 1.05.