RE: A profile for TV

Hi Giuseppe,

I would like to participate in this discussion. My perspectives of this work are as follows;

1) A strict meaning/definition of "meta-profiling" will be needed.
In my understanding, you want to define some form of parameterized profile-set for reuse by other organization and better interoperability, etc.. If my understanding is correct, it is useful for many people to use HTML-5 on TV device or other CE devices that is similar characteristics to TV.

2) Goal (specification document form, etc.) of this work
You said in previous mail thread, this will happen to make guideline document for construct their own specification that is used HTML-5.

3) Identify insufficient functionality?
I'm not sure this is needed for this work, but several previous works (OIPF/CEA) defined broadcasting resource access method like a remote controller keyset or video resource control with player status model, etc. This work identify to use such a definition when HTML-5 is applying?

Rgs,
-- Yoshiharu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Giuseppe Pascale [mailto:giuseppep@opera.com]
> Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 12:30 AM
> To: public-web-and-tv@w3.org; david.corvoysier@orange.com
> Subject: Re: A profile for TV
> 
> On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 14:47:22 +0100, <david.corvoysier@orange.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am not opposed to the definition of a TV profile, but before starting
> > the discussions, I also think we need to agree on the objectives.
> 
> Totally agree, that is why I started this discussion. Is important to
> discuss on this list and have a common understanding before rushing into
> specification.
> 
> > From a service provider point of view, the main driver of a W3C TV
> > profile has to be interoperability accross a wide range of devices, and
> > not compatibility with devices typically used in a specific ecosystem
> > (that is in my opinion up to dedicated business fora to define these).
> 
> Agree, see other reply I sent where I talk of a meta-profile.
> My proposal for this group is to work on a document that provides a guide
> on how to integrate an html5 (end co.) based environment with the layer
> right below it, to be able to support common use cases typical of TV
> services.
> 
> I suspect that many groups are looking or will be looking into this. And
> I
> thought that making the common part together in this group will bring
> several benefits:
> - better interoperability
> - save time by making the effort in one place and reusing it
> - get involvement from the web community
> 
> The document (in my view) will still need to be "profiled" by business
> fora to adapt it to their business models, with the advantage of having
> already a pretty advanced starting point.
> 
> > Said differently, I am very interested in defining a W3C profile for TV
> > services, ie identifying what would prevent a service provider from
> > deploying the same TV web application on TVs, tablets, mobile phones and
> > desktops, but I am not really interested in defining a W3C profile for
> > TV devices, ie deciding on which subset of the specifications an
> > implementation on a specific range of TV devices can be tagged as HTML5
> > compliant (because this kind of profile increases fragmentation instead
> > of reducing it).
> >
> 
> Yes, this is what I'm proposing, not a focus on a single set-up but on the
> overall architecture. Those points where a generic enough decision cannot
> be made will have to be documented and the "variables" be identified so
> that business groups can limit their work on defining the value of such
> "variables"
> 
> 
> As mentioned in some other places, I'm not sure the word profile is
> appropriate for what I'm proposing. Would be probably better to talk about
> "Guidelines" for integration of tv services in a browser based environment
> (or something like this)
> 
> /g
> 
> 
> --
> Giuseppe Pascale
> TV & Connected Devices
> Opera Software
>

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