- From: Yves Raimond <yves.raimond@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 10:10:35 +0100
- To: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>
- Cc: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>, Media Fragment <public-media-fragment@w3.org>
Hello! >> 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. Apparently, they do use open technologies instead of reinventing them, which is very good: http://connectedmediaexperience.org/technicaloverview.html#technology As long as commercial alliances are using open standards, I am happy :) Cheers, y
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