RE: WG draft charter and Phase 2 proposals

[Re-sending as I forgot to include Sangwhan in the recipients list]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francois Daoust [mailto:fd@w3.org]
> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2015 12:30 PM
> To: 'public-tvapi@w3.org' <public-tvapi@w3.org>
> Subject: WG draft charter and Phase 2 proposals
> 
> Hello TV Control API CG participants,
> 
> The CG is currently working in parallel on technical use cases for a Phase 2
> [1] and on a draft charter for a possible TV Control Working Group [2].
> 
> The timeline proposed in the draft WG charter is very tight, aiming at a final
> Recommendation early 2017. Experience suggests that it would be
> unrealistic to expect that the scope of the current spec may change
> drastically within that time frame: if it gets created, the working group will
> only have time to "finalize" the spec (add missing bits, fine-tune the API
> based on implementation feedback, create the test suite).
> 
> So, the question is: which of the phase 2 proposals should be included in the
> draft WG charter and which should remain topics that the CG would want to
> explore?
> 
> Looking at Phase 2 proposals:
> 
> 
> Handling of non-TV "channels" (such as HDMI inputs).
> -----
> This is currently in scope of the draft WG charter.
> However, it does not map directly to the notion of tuner, channel and
> program currently defined in the spec.
> I wonder if it could not be addressed in a future revision of the spec and/or
> perhaps even in a separate spec that the CG could define.
> 
> Sangwhan, I think this feature was added based on your feedback, what is
> your take on this?
> 
> 
> Security and privacy requirements
> -----
> This is in scope of the draft WG charter, and a common expectation for
> Working Groups at W3C.
> I note that the draft charter leaves the possibility to define a second
> conformance level in the spec for features that might perhaps be more
> specific to tuner-centric devices and that could perhaps run under a different
> security model.
> 
> 
> Broadcast radio
> -----
> This is currently in scope of the draft WG charter.
> This may require some changes to the API, although hopefully restricted to a
> few adjustments.
> There have been discussions with the Media Tuner Task Force of the
> Automotive BG in the past which shows interest to address radios as well, so
> I would leave it in.
> 
> 
> Interactive application signalling
> -----
> The draft WG charter is not really clear on this. That's an important topic to
> address. However, it does not seem trivial to me as it touches on the notion
> of application lifecycle.
> Is there any preliminary proposal that would describe how it could be
> addressed in a Web application?
> If not, I would suggest to leave it out of the charter for the time being.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Francois.
> 
> [1]
> https://www.w3.org/community/tvapi/wiki/Main_Page/Phase2_Technical_U
> se_Cases
> [2] http://w3c.github.io/charter-drafts/tvcontrol-2015.html

Received on Friday, 27 November 2015 11:33:08 UTC