RE: Next steps on draft-zigmond-tv-url-02
From: Patrick Schmitz (pschmitz@microsoft.com)
Date: Tue, Aug 31 1999
Message-ID: <3C3175FCC945D211B65100805F1580890EACA8E9@RED-MSG-07>
From: Patrick Schmitz <pschmitz@microsoft.com>
To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>, Jack.Lang@ntl.com, Dan Zigmond <djz@corp.webtv.net>, www-tv@w3c.org
Cc: mav@liberate.com, Dean Blackketter <dean@corp.webtv.net>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:03:42 -0700
Subject: RE: Next steps on draft-zigmond-tv-url-02
[snip]
>
> > > tv:abc.com (DNS domain name: American
> Broadcasting Company)
> > > tv:abc.net.au (DNS domain name: Australian Broadcast
> >Corporation)
> > >
> >
> >Problem with this is where one organisation (e.g. BBC at
www.bbc.co.uk)
>originates several channels (BBC1 BBC2, BBCChoice, BBCKnowledge,BBCNews24,
>BBCParliament etc).
> tv:bbc1.bbc.co.uk solves this.
A URI is not just a domain name, but can describe hierarchy.
Why not use an approach like:
tv:bbc.co.uk/bbc1
You can further qualify each channel to distinguish versions of a channel
(wide, regional, etc.)
tv:bbc.co.uk/bbc1/wide
tv:bbc.co.uk/bbc1/wales
etc.
Forgive me examples if "wales" is a poor choice for regional variant. I
trust it conveys the point.
Note also that these are URIs and not URLs. The path need not have any
real-world or web-based meaning. Naturally, a broadcaster is free to provide
equivalent http-based URLs for informative web pages if they so choose.
Patrick
Patrick Schmitz (pschmitz@microsoft.com)
Program Manager - Internet Multimedia Standards
Microsoft