Re: iPhone streaming Internet-Draft posted

At 16:09  -0700 4/08/09, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
>On Aug 4, 2009, at 3:15 PM, David Singer wrote:
>>The goal of the draft is to produce interoperable implementations. 
>>We wish to keep it focused on a single transport: HTTP.
>
>HTTP is not a transport.

OK, it is a transfer protocol; and this draft layers on it.

>
>>>But really, I'm mostly speaking with my HTTP hat on here and this 
>>>spec has very little to do with HTTP and I think I'd better rest 
>>>my case about the rest.
>>
>>We believe that the title live-media-streaming-over-http removes 
>>any impression that it is an extension of the HTTP standard.
>
>Not as well as the title: Dynamic Playlist Format for Live Media Streaming
>
>....Roy


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David Singer
Multimedia Standards, Apple Inc.

Received on Wednesday, 5 August 2009 17:07:06 UTC