- From: David Singer <singer@apple.com>
- Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:23:07 +0800
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, http-live-streaming-review@group.apple.com
Hi, Mark. Thanks for looking at the spec. On May 4, 2009, at 5:21 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: >I had a quick look over this. My impression was that the >relationship to HTTP is pretty tangental; i.e., you may only intend >to use this over HTTP, but there's not much (anything?) >HTTP-specific about it. > >As such, it may be better to position this as a format description >(or indeed a description of an extension to an existing format), >rather than something HTTP-specific. E.g., a good name might be >'Live Streaming Extensions for the M3U Playlist Format.' > >One question -- why do all of your tags begin with 'EXT-X-'? In the M3U playlist format, tags start with EXT. Since we don't control M3U, we defined new tags by analogy with experimental MIME types, thus EXT-X-. -- David Singer Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.
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