- From: Michael A. Dolan <miked@tbt.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 07:25:01 -0700
- To: www-tv@w3.org (WWW TV List)
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 09:08 AM 8/31/99 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > >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scheme as is, but with a label saying "this has been superseded by btv:, DO 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". As currently published, these URI's do not do the same thing and are not very related. While a desirable administrative solution, it is not currently technically viable. But, if the tv: I-D authors are willing to move on the namespace (as appears to be the case from a recent post), then we should start there and see where that takes us. But saying that btv:// can replace tv: at this point is unfounded technically. In a nutshell, tv: identifies channels. btv: is a generally opaque naming system that requires tagging (at least without some more detailed usage convention). With the recent proposal from Dan, these namespaces become closer, so lets focus there first. >> 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? Huh? ITU is an international organization. The above callsign is globally unique and has nothing to do with the US (except that the "k" prefix belongs to the US). Of all the technical issues with tv:, this is not one. I can see that this is going to be a long discussion, covering lots of old ground. I'll try to post some tutorial information, so we can help avoid at least some misunderstandings. Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBN8vlvCl9dIG/haQGEQIsjACffFVlzRkAvCrOL2XPXjpnKr7Ze8AAn2JD MV6lMO2nKd0+tDVAYgTN9c3K =YzO+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------ Michael A. Dolan, Representing DIRECTV, (619)445-9070 PO Box 1673 Alpine, CA 91903 FAX: (619)445-6122
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