- From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 23:28:00 PDT
- To: "Philipp Hoschka" <Philipp.Hoschka@sophia.inria.fr>
- Cc: <www-tv@w3.org>
The primary objections to the previous proposal for the "tv:" URL scheme is that the proposed scheme didn't meet the fundamental definition of URLs, namely that it was "uniform". The concern is that two different viewers who are using the same URL should get the same "resource", even if they're in different parts of the world. If that's not the case, then you don't have a URL scheme. Maybe HREFs in HTML pages need to be things other than URLs, too. As with all standards efforts when you think you're going in circles, it's very useful to try to define goals and requirements. What are the goals you're trying to achieve with a "tv" URL scheme? What are the technical requirements of such a scheme? What are some scenarios for use? These things have not been clear in the "tv" work. Back away from the existing proposals long enough to write up something that is independent of the proposal. > the goal is to move this to the ietf once it's "done", > the problem is when to declare it "done" - we will probably > have to do a W3C working group to have a consensus building > group, so that we can go to IETF and say "people agreed on this, > please consider it as a standard" without having a WG there This is a non-goal, or a process goal. Why do you care whether there's an IETF working group or not? Is this a turf battle, or do you just want to get done quickly? What about those who want "radio:"? Do they need to form their own group? What about multicast video sessions vs. TV sessions? Are these the same or different? http://www.w3.org/TV/TVWeb doesn't seem to address goals and requirements at this level. Larry (not a member of www-tv@w3.org) -- http://www.parc.xerox.com/masinter
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