Format consists of blocks. Identification based upon 'version' block - 8 bytes 'version' block start tag: identifier = 0xE8030000 & length of block (11 bytes = 0x0B000000) - Data (in this case the 11 byte null-terminated version string AB.POD.2.0) - 8 bytes 'version' block end tag: identifier = 0xE8030080 & length (0 bytes as end tag = 0x00000000)