Re: Where are we?

From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand (Harald@Alvestrand.no)
Date: Sun, Oct 10 1999 

Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.19991010130617.02a21a30@dokka.maxware.no>
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 13:13:38 +0200
To: "Jack Lang" <fw23@dial.pipex.com>, "Dan Zigmond" <djz@corp.webtv.net>, "'Scott J. Anderson'" <sjanderson@newshour.org>, <www-tv@w3c.org>
From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>
Subject: Re: Where are we?

At 11:57 10.10.99 +0100, Jack Lang wrote:
>Harald:
>
>Unfortunately the slot has been delayed by ten minutes, as the earlier news
>program was extended.

and in that case, the currently popular ShowView scheme breaks too.
IMNSHO, the Right Thing to do, architecturally, is to establish two 
orthogonal name spaces:

- TV transmission stream and time slot
- Information content, such as "series episode" or "today's news"

Then it's possible to build an association service that is able to transmit 
things like:

   content://international.syndicates.com/TheLucyShow/Episode497/ will be
   transmitted on tv-channel://bbc1.bbc.co.uk/19990422:2200+0000:30min

I think that's where we should end up; but since there's no consensus (that 
I can hear) in this group that we should go straight there, we should just 
make sure we don't block the possibility of ending up there.

                          Harald

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Harald Tveit Alvestrand, Maxware, Norway
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