 Especially archives where the collections do not feature extensive broadcast materials but rather consist of, oral history-, ethnographic-recordings and the likes, ""favored the lossless FFV1 encoding"" in communications with the "Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative" (FADGI) team.As of 2015, standardization of FFV1 through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) is work in progress as part of the European PREFORMA Project, as well as implementation of a conformance checker for FFV1/PCM in a Matroska (MKV) container.Details of FFV1's standardization plan have been prepared by MediaArea (authors of MediaInfo) as part of their conformance checking tool "Media CONCH".