[erichdongubler]

It seems strange, because it's not reality! Forensic tools like FTK and Autopsy have had a plug-in framework for these forever, speaking as a former contributor to the former. There's also Kaitai Struct.

I'm sure other communities have popped up that I haven't heard of, too. There's lots of interest in unifying forensic parsing under open work.

[marlin]

I'm working on something, that is a open template format for binary file formats. It is usable today as a universal file extractor, with some bugs and limitations.

Check it out at https://github.com/martinlindhe/feng