[HOME_NETWORK_TF] Final changes to the requirement document

Hi all,
in order to finalize the requirement document, I would like to ask you  
feedback about the following two potential changes. If no objection is  
raised I'll go ahead and apply them:

* Gap Analysis:
- add a section "Gap Analysis" to "1.9 Categorization of Requirements and  
next steps", after "1.9.1 Requirement Categorization"
- add the following text to such a section:

"==Gaps==
A close analysis and discussion of the use-cases and requirements  
described in this document, lead the group to conclude that the **major**  
gap in the Open Web platform is the lack of means for an application to  
discover services and applications available on the home network. Filling  
such a gap will probably allow the coverage of most (if not all)  
requirements listed in this documents.

Some concerns were raised if the discovery alone is enough to address  
advertisements requirements especially for support of existing protocols  
such as UPnP. In fact, advertisements itself could be implemented as a  
service so that applications can discover it and then register to be  
advertised on the network. Such a service my be provided by the UA itself  
(i.e. the functionality is provided by the UA but exposed as a service).  
Is not clear though (lucking implementations of this) if this approach  
will be enough flexible and efficient. The discussion will have to be  
deferred to the point in time when such discovery implementation will be  
available."

* Requirements about content player discovery/control
Some concerns were raised that the following requirements can be actually  
considered as part of the equivalent generic service  
advertisement/control/discovery:
- 1.6.2.4 Content Players Discovery,
- 1.6.3.1 Control of content players
- 1.6.3.2 Control of content recorders

What should I do with them? Should I remove them from our document? I'm  
personally fine removing them.

* Content Discovery/advertisement
Some concerns were raised that also content discovery/advertisement may be  
included in the generic service discovery/advertisement. The requirements  
are:
- 1.6.2.3 Content Discovery
- 1.6.2.5 Content Advertisement
What should I do with them? Keep them or remove? I think is still valuable  
to keep them, since is an important requirement that could actually  
require something more then generic service discovery/advertisement


/g


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Giuseppe Pascale
TV & Connected Devices
Opera Software

Received on Monday, 3 October 2011 10:15:22 UTC