Talk:Yellow Book (CD standard)

merge
This article should be merged to Rainbow Books. Please comment at Talk:Rainbow Books. &mdash;Quarl (talk) 2006-01-15 11:42Z 

Standard?
The Yellow Book is a specification. While the word "standard" is quite similar, it doesn't quite mean the same thing. Products such as CDs are produced to meet a specification. When they are tested, they either meet the specification or they don't. Specifications are very specific. Standards can be something less specific. Also - the Yellow Book applies only to CD-ROM, not to all CD formats. I would suggest that this article be renamed Yellow Book (CD-ROM specification). 71.245.112.37 13:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)


 * A good point, and I have my own reasons to agree (older, well-known songs are sometimes called "standards", and when clarifying with exact details, one is giving "specifics.") At the same time, when languaging such things, I have more often heard of "standardizing" than of "specificationizing" (the Yellow Book is an "industry standard.")  Maybe both terms should be included in the page title.  I'm not opposed to the change, but perhaps it would be best to get a few more opinions, hopefully from more senior editors?  TravellerDMT-07 17:51, 14 March 2007 (UTC)