Re: Next steps on draft-zigmond-tv-url-02
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand (Harald@Alvestrand.no)
Date: Tue, Aug 31 1999
Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19990831090008.00e1e840@dokka.maxware.no>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:08:34 +0200
To: Dan Zigmond <djz@corp.webtv.net>, "'www-tv@w3c.org'" <www-tv@w3c.org>
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Cc: "'mav@liberate.com'" <mav@liberate.com>, Dean Blackketter <dean@corp.webtv.net>
Subject: Re: Next steps on draft-zigmond-tv-url-02
At 10:20 27.08.99 -0700, Dan Zigmond wrote:
>So now that we've officially moved discussion of the recently submitted
>"tv:" draft to this list...all discussion seems to have stopped. I thought
>I'd send out a message on where I think we are and how we might move
>forward.
apologies for not responding earlier. I'm stil around!
One question: You (or others) mentioned a few times that an URI scheme was
"the only one that met your requirements".
Would it be possible to have those requirements posted somewhere - here, as
an I-D, or on a Webpage?
>Good news: There seems to be some emerging consensus that a revision of the
>"tv:" spec should be published as an RFC.
An alternative is to publish Craig Finseth's "btv:" and publish the TV:
scheme as is, but with a label saying "this has been superseded by btv:, DO
NOT USE".
>Bad news: At the very least, the scheme needs to be revised for global
>uniqueness.
>
>The proposals on the table that seem the most workable to me are the ones
>using DNS. I don't think we want to try to create a new registry system for
>television networks, especially if we hope to finish soon. So the revised
>scheme would look like:
>
> tv: (current channel)
The concept of "currency" may need some explanation - "the channel carrying
the signal in which the URL is embedded" is what we're looking for, I think.
> tv:kqed (ITU standard international callsign)
I'd like to lose this too; it's an americanism, and confuses the issues, I
think. Is there a station with callsign FIRM?
> tv:abc.com (DNS domain name: American Broadcasting Company)
> tv:abc.net.au (DNS domain name: Australian Broadcast Corporation)
>
>We could make a note in the draft of the legacy usage of "tv:abc", but
>explain that it should not be used going forward because of collision with
>the callsign namespace and the problem of the same identifiers being used by
>different broadcasters in different geographical regions.
Definitely.
>We would also remove from the draft the speculation on future "tv:" URI
>schemes, and remove the IPR statements (which could be filed by individual
>companies with the IETF separately).
>
>How does this sound?
It sounds good to me!
Harald
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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
Harald.Alvestrand@maxware.no