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Is the OpenEXR prose-versus-flowchart discrepancy (attribute 'present' versus flag 'set') reported in a public ColorInterop tracker issue, and what do the issues say about it?

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The ColorInterop OpenEXR recommendation is internally inconsistent on ACES container detection, and this was still true on main on 2026-10-22. The reading steps say the acesImageContainer attribute takes precedence if it is present; the flowchart asks whether the flag is set. The name also differs from OpenEXR's: OpenEXR's PR 2560 (merged 2026-09-05) added the standard attribute as 'acesImageContainerFlag', not 'acesImageContainer'. Readers should test for the OpenEXR attribute name and decide explicitly whether presence or a true value counts. Curator qualifications: Texts read 2026-10-22; no EXR files written or read. Issue #9/#13/#15 thread history carried from producer reading; no public thread reports the divergence (producer negative). Limitations: Texts read 2026-10-22; no EXR files written or read. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/ColorInterop/blob/8b7b15ccf2e7bfab336a9865f0c57036ab90d322/Recommendations/04_OpenEXRFiles/OpenEXRFiles.md",
      "note": "ColorInterop Recommendations/04_OpenEXRFiles/OpenEXRFiles.md @8b7b15c and main (same bytes); openexr PR 2560 conversation comment 5175728379 (2026-08-04)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/ColorInterop/issues/9",
      "note": "ColorInterop Recommendations/04_OpenEXRFiles/OpenEXRFiles.md @8b7b15c and main (same bytes); openexr PR 2560 conversation comment 5175728379 (2026-08-04)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/ColorInterop/pull/13",
      "note": "ColorInterop Recommendations/04_OpenEXRFiles/OpenEXRFiles.md @8b7b15c and main (same bytes); openexr PR 2560 conversation comment 5175728379 (2026-08-04)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/AcademySoftwareFoundation/ColorInterop/issues/15",
      "note": "ColorInterop Recommendations/04_OpenEXRFiles/OpenEXRFiles.md @8b7b15c and main (same bytes); openexr PR 2560 conversation comment 5175728379 (2026-08-04)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] The ColorInterop OpenEXR recommendation is internally inconsistent on ACES container detection, and this was still true on main on 2026-10-22. The reading steps say the acesImageContainer attribute takes precedence if it is present; the flowchart asks whether the flag is set. The name also differs from OpenEXR's: OpenEXR's PR 2560 (merged 2026-09-05) added the standard attribute as 'acesImageContainerFlag', not 'acesImageContainer'. Readers should test for the OpenEXR attribute name and decide explicitly whether presence or a true value counts. · locator: ColorInterop Recommendations/04_OpenEXRFiles/OpenEXRFiles.md @8b7b15c and main (same bytes); openexr PR 2560 conversation comment 5175728379 (2026-08-04) source

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