- From: Christian Timmerer (ITEC) <christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at>
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:07:12 +0200
- To: "'Rotan Hanrahan'" <Rotan.Hanrahan@MobileAware.com>, "'Johannes Koch'" <koch@w3development.de>, "'Kai Hendry'" <hendry@cs.helsinki.fi>
- Cc: "'www-di Mailingliste'" <www-di@w3.org>
Dear Rotan, this broken link has been corrected. Best regards, -Christian > -----Original Message----- > From: Rotan Hanrahan [mailto:Rotan.Hanrahan@MobileAware.com] > Sent: Montag, 24. Mai 2004 10:33 > To: Christian Timmerer (ITEC); Johannes Koch; Kai Hendry > Cc: www-di Mailingliste > Subject: RE: Multi-channel content > > Dear Christian, > The link to the DIA requirements document on that page is broken. > ---Rotan > > -----Original Message----- > From: Christian Timmerer (ITEC) > [mailto:christian.timmerer@itec.uni-klu.ac.at] > Sent: 24 May 2004 08:22 > To: Rotan Hanrahan; 'Johannes Koch'; 'Kai Hendry' > Cc: 'www-di Mailingliste' > Subject: RE: Multi-channel content > > > Dear Rotan, all, > > > A complete database is a very intensive, time-consuming and ultimately > > expensive operation. Commercial solutions exist. They are comprehensive. > > The UAProf information is within such solutions, but (speaking from > > our experience) the UAProf info is terribly insufficient to produce > > solutions for Device Independence. Therefore these DBs are extended > > with considerable additional information to support DI products, and > > are typically updated every few days (as new devices appear, and new > > characteristics are identified by customers/users). > [Christian Timmerer (ITEC)] I'd like to take the opportunity to refer to MPEG-21 Digital Item > Adaptation (DIA) which has been > recently standardized (Dec 2003). This includes a rich vocabulary to describe the usage > environment, i.e., user characteristics, > terminal capabilities, network characteristics, and natural environment characteristics. The FCD > (Final Committee Draft) is still > available under http://www.chiariglione.org/mpeg/working_documents.htm#MPEG-21. > > Hope this helps, especially for producing solutions for Device Independence :-) > > However, if you have any further questions, comments, ... please let me know. > > Best regards, > -Christian > > (Editor of MPEG-21 DIA)
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