Re: Media Fragments Talk to the W3C Semantic Web Coordination Group

Dear Silvia,

> BTW: my demo doesn't work in Safari cause Safari doesn't support Ogg
> out of the box. Tell ivan to install XiphQT and it will work.

Thanks for the explanation, I will :-)

> Sounds to me like MPEG-21 all over again, except done with RDFa -
> which might indeed be the better approach. I wonder why that couldn't
> have been done from within W3C and why a new standards body with extra
> membership fees had to be invented. Do you know who's a member yet and
> who's driving it?

You ask exactly the same question that W3C has asked Manu Sporny :-) He 
is currently the liaison between these 2 groups. Basically, it seems 
that this consortium (industrially driven) is afraid to loose control 
over the standard, the license, etc. if this falls into W3C hands (which 
is non sense when we know the W3C patent policy). This consortium has 
yesterday and today a plenary face to face meeting. Manu will come back 
to us afterwards to see how we could collaborate. This consortium aims 
to have a huge impact in the industry. They might rely on W3C efforts 
(media annotations, media fragments) for ensuring the distribution of 
media content.

   Raphaël

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