- From: Michael A. Dolan <miked@tbt.com>
- Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 09:39:51 -0700
- To: www-tv@w3c.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 There is another URI mechanism contemplated for pointing at shows and other resources and events in the receiver. There is a fatal problem with either of the syntaxes that you propose below in that the show is then implicitly bound to a particular service. This is often not the case in practice, and the show may air on any of several services. I'll let Dan answer his intent for tv:, but such use is problematic. Regards, Mike At 11:59 AM 10/8/99 -0400, Scott J. Anderson wrote: >Quick question... > >A particular show's URL for a network is usually network.com/show. For example, >The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer's URL on PBS is http://www.pbs.org/newshour/. >Would the URI handle show-specific addresses or only domain names? If I follow >you correctly, we would have to switch to newshour.pbs.org. That, of course, is >not the end of the world. Just curious. > >--sja > >Dan Zigmond wrote: > >> Discussions seem to have stalled again, so I thought maybe I would make an >> attempt to summarize where I think we might be now in terms of a proposal to >> take back to the IESG/IETF. >> >> Several people expressed discomfort with the use of broadcast call signs of >> the form KQED. Although these are world unique and standardized by the ITU >> (I think), they appear to be very uncommon outside the United States. So I >> would like to propose that we further limit the "tv:" URI to two forms: >> >> tv: meaning "current channel" >> tv:<network> where <network> is a DNS name >> >> So some valid "tv:" URIs would be: >> >> tv: [of course] >> tv:abc.com American Broadcasting Company >> tv:abc.net.au Australian Broadcast Corporation >> tv:kron.com KRON in San Francisco >> tv:channel4.com Channel 4 in the UK >> tv:west.hbo.com HBO West >> tv:one.bbc.co.uk BBC1 >> >> As I think we've discussed, the rule is that if you own the domain, you can >> register names using that domain. So HBO can register "west.hbo.com" as >> their official name for their West Coast feed, and BBC can register >> "one.bbc.co.uk" or "1.bbc.co.uk" or whatever they want for BBC1. >> >> I think this is a reasonably final proposal. It basically collapses all the >> other forms into the DNS namespace, and moves any dispute over names to >> disputes over DNS. (Of course, DNS disputes aren't easy to resolve, but at >> least if we ever get a good mechanism there it will automatically be applied >> to "tv:" URIs too.) >> >> I'm ready to do another revision to the Internet-Draft based on this >> approach, but I thought I'd make another check for comments first. Perhaps >> we can try to have a new draft next week and get it to the IESG. >> >> Dan >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> Dan Zigmond >> Senior Manager, Broadcast Applications >> WebTV Networks, Inc. >> djz@corp.webtv.net >> --------------------------------------------------- > >_______________________________ >Scott J. Anderson, technologist >The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer >sjanderson@newshour.org >703.998.2117 >ICQ communications center: http://wwp.icq.com/34675744 >"I sing the body electric" -- Walt Whitman > > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBN/4eVil9dIG/haQGEQLBhwCgpWcjpvBOFCY2VabJTizpWl2ZN0gAoPTs qcrGFEdftkEUzpLYYJbqykMI =rJ0d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------------------------------------------- Michael A. Dolan TerraByte Technology (619)445-9070 PO Box 1673 Alpine, CA 91903 FAX: (619)445-6122 URL:http://www.tbt.com
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