href="#page-8">8</a>
   <a href="#section-8">8</a>. Appendix: Rationale ............................................ <a href="#page-9">9</a>
   <a href="#section-9">9</a>. Appendix: Sample code ..........................................<a href="#page-10">10</a>

<span class="h2"><a class="selflink" name="section-1" href="#section-1">1</a>. Introduction</span>

   1.1. Purpose

      The purpose of this specification is to define a lossless
      compressed data format that:

          * Is independent of CP