Re: Objections to TPAC resolutions on IMSC1.1

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 11:51 AM, David Singer <singer@mac.com> wrote:

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> > On Nov 28, 2017, at 10:44 , Andreas Tai <tai@irt.de> wrote:
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> > Dear all,
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> > It seems obvious to me that we currently do not have any consensus on
> the discussed issue. I certainly do not agree to take established
> attributes, copy them to TTML and give them another namespace (e.g. the
> TTML Styling namespace). I have strong concerns about this procedure (which
> is one of the core aspects of the Netflix proposals). I commented this in
> the f2f meeting, in discussions and also in a wide review comment to TTML2.
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> I think there is at least a courtesy problem, if not a formal one, if the
> “other namespace” and its defining document are not W3C ones, which appears
> to be the case here (I assume ebutts: is EBU Timed Text). Have we not
> already had this issue with SMPTE extensions?
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Only in IMSC,  not in TTML. IMSC was afforded more freedom to draw on
external namespaces; however, as a core technology, TTML has remained
restricted to its own namespaces the XML and XLINK namespaces, which
precedent exists in both SVG and SMIL.



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> David Singer
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