Editing JPEG File Interchange Format (section)

== History ==
Development of the JFIF document was led by Eric Hamilton of [[C-Cube Microsystems]], and agreement on the first version was established in late 1991 at a meeting held at C-Cube involving about 40 representatives of various computer, telecommunications, and imaging companies. Shortly afterwards, a minor revision was published — JFIF 1.01.<ref name="ecma_tr98" /> For nearly 20 years, the latest version available was v1.02, published September 1, 1992.<ref name="hamilton_1992">{{cite web
|url=http://www.w3.org/Graphics/JPEG/jfif3.pdf
|format=pdf, 0.02 MB
|title=JPEG File Interchange Format, Version 1.02
|last=Hamilton
|first=Eric
|date=12 September 1992
|access-date=15 June 2015
}}</ref>

In 1996, [[Request for Comments|RFC]] 2046 specified that the image format used for transmitting JPEG images across the Internet should be JFIF. The [[MIME type]] of "image/jpeg" must be encoded as JFIF. In practice, however, virtually all Internet software can decode any baseline ''JIF'' image that uses Y or YCbCr components, whether it is JFIF compliant or not.

As time went by, C-Cube was restructured (and eventually devolved into [[Harmonic Inc.|Harmonic]], [[LSI Logic]], [[Magnum Semiconductor]], [[Avago Technologies]], [[Broadcom Limited|Broadcom]], and GigOptix, GigPeak, etc), and lost interest in the document, and the specification had no official publisher until it was picked up by [[Ecma International]] and the ITU-T/ISO/IEC [[Joint Photographic Experts Group]] around 2009 to avoid it being lost to history and provide a way to formally cite it in standard publications and improve its editorial quality. It was published by ECMA in 2009 as Technical Report number 98 to avoid loss of the historical record,<ref name="ecma_tr98">{{cite web
|url=https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/technical-reports/ecma-tr-98/
|title=JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)
|website=ecma-international.org
|year=2009
|access-date=15 June 2015
}}</ref>
and it was formally standardized by [[ITU-T]] in 2011 as its Recommendation T.871<ref name="itu_t871">{{cite web
|url=https://www.itu.int/rec/dologin_pub.asp?lang=e&id=T-REC-T.871-201105-I!!PDF-E&type=items
|format=PDF
|title=Recommendation ITU-T T.871: Information technology – Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF)
|publisher=ITU-T
|date=14 May 2011
|access-date=15 June 2015
}}</ref>
and by ISO/IEC in 2013 as ISO/IEC 10918-5,<ref name="iso_10918-5">{{cite web
|url=http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=54989
|title=ISO/IEC 10918-5:2013: Information technology – Digital compression and coding of continuous-tone still images: JPEG File Interchange Format (JFIF).
|publisher=ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission
|date=1 May 2013
|access-date=15 June 2015
}}</ref> The newer publications included editorial improvements but no substantial technical changes.