Message-Id: <9212050723.AA03414@pixel.convex.com> To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch Subject: multimedia projects survey... Date: Sat, 05 Dec 92 01:23:07 CST From: Dan Connolly <connolly@pixel.convex.com> Tim: you wanna reply to this? ------- Forwarded Message Xref: convex comp.compression:5352 comp.protocols.iso:3234 comp.mail.multi-media:933 comp.multimedia:4515 Path: convex!convex!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!uunet!mcsun!uknet!edcastle!cja From: cja@castle.ed.ac.uk (C Adie) Newsgroups: comp.compression,comp.protocols.iso,comp.mail.multi-media,comp.multimedia Subject: Networked multimedia Summary: Survey of multimedia networking Keywords: multimedia, networks Message-Id: <29035@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 3 Dec 92 12:41:56 GMT Organization: Edinburgh University Lines: 254 I have been requested by RARE to carry out a survey on NETWORKED MULTIMEDIA, and I'm writing to ask for your help. RARE (Reseaux Associes pour la Recherche Europeenne) is the organisation which looks after the networking needs of Europe's researchers, and it has recently formed a Working Group on multimedia networking. The survey has been instigated by that group, and will be used to guide its further work. The survey covers RESEARCH projects, published STANDARDS, and PRODUCTS available in the field of networked multimedia. Obviously, this could be a huge task. It can only be managable if we get good cooperation and input from people on the net. What we'd like is some information about things we've missed, and about things which we know exist but have insufficient information on. RESEARCH ======== This part of the survey is a listing of current research projects involving networked multimedia. We don't know enough, and have no-one to ask, about the following projects: PROJECT INSTITUTION - ------- ----------- ISA ? (Esprit) MUSE CECI, MIT, USA CIO U of Ulm, Germany TINA (Telecommunications Networking Information Architecture) ACME UC Berkeley, USA Cruiser Bellcore, USA We're also looking for other research projects which we have missed. I'm sure there are several more CEC-funded research projects which we need to find out about. We already know (or know who to ask) about the following projects: MNI Lancaster University, GB OSI95 Lancaster University, GB CAR UCL, GB MICE UCL, GB DARPA teleconferencing PACT UCL, GB ACT UCL, GB PREPARE UCL, GB Multi-G SICS, Sweden Zenith Lancaster University, GB; Kent University, GB EVAN HW University, GB MM over Janet UCL, GB MADE BT Palantir Kent University, GB EuroBridge RWTH Aachen, Germany Berkom II DEC, Germany STANDARDS ========= This part of the survey covers standards (de facto and industry standards as well as standards-bodies standards) which are concerned with networked multimedia and with compound document exchange. We don't know enough about the following standards: STANDARD DESCRIPTION - -------- ----------- JBIG Binary image encoding form T.101 - T.106 unknown We're also looking for other relevant standards which we have missed. We already know enough (or know who to ask) about the following standards: RTP Real-time Transport Protocol for audio & video over IP MIME Multimedia mail standard on the Internet ST2 High speed protocol to run alongside IP for multimedia Bento Platform-independant compound document format from Apple HyTime SGML-based standard for hypermedia documents MHEG ASN.1-based standard for hypermedia documents MPEG Video & audio compression, synchronization JPEG Compression algorithm for continuous-tone colour stills ODA Office Document Architecture G.711 64kbps 8kHz 8-bit PCM audio encoding G.721 32kbps ADPCM audio encoding G.722 64kbps SB-ADPCM audio encoding H.242 Point-to-point conferencing codec standard H.243 Multipoint video codec standard H.261 px64kbps video encoding H.320 Umbrella for compression, data rates, audio encoding T.80 - T.83 Still image compression techniques for communications T.170 - T.176 Multimedia/hypermedia objects, functions and protocols T.121 - T.124 Network-independent audio-conferencing protocols X.400 Multimedia mail QuickTime Movie Format Apple Macintosh sequenced information file format MIDI Musical Instrument Digital Interface Carousel Platform-independant compound document format from Adobe PRODUCTS ======== This part of the survey covers products which are concerned with networked multimedia, including desktop conferencing. "Products" covers commercial offerings, freeware developed in academia, and also freely-available research tools such as vat. We need further information on the following products: SUPPLIER PRODUCT - -------- ------- Specom Technologies Corp Picfon Bitfield BVCS Tandberg Telecom VC7000 Memtec VS-1000 TechnoTeacher HyMinder IIS Technologies MacMica Group Technologies Aspects We're also looking for other relevant products which we have missed. We already know enough (or know who to ask) about the following products: IBM Person to Person/2 Xanadu ? The Electronic Studio ES.F2F Stanford University Maestro Starlight Media Server CLI Cameo PVS CoSA PACo Bellcore MetaMail Microsoft Mail LBL vat INRIA ivs Xerox/PARC nv If you can provide information about any of these, or if you know of things we have missed, please mail me. We plan to produce a draft survey report before the end of December. When complete, the survey will be made freely available over anonymous ftp. Chris Adie Phone: +44 31 650 3363 Edinburgh University Computing Service Fax: +44 31 662 4809 University Library, George Square Email: C.J.Adie@edinburgh.ac.uk Edinburgh EH8 9LJ, United Kingdom - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you do provide information for the survey, it would really be appreciated if you could use one of these forms: RESEARCH PROJECTS ================= Project name: ............................................. Funding body: ............................................. Participators: ............................................. (list of participating organisations) Timescale: ............................................. (project start date and approximate finish date) Project aims: ............................................. Description: ............................................. (up to a page of information - or point me at an existing description which I could palagerise) Standards used: ............................................. (any distributed multimedia standards which are used in the project) Papers/reports: ............................................. (list of papers, reports etc describing project results) Contact point: ............................................. (name/email address of a contact person for the project) STANDARDS ========= Name of standard: ............................................. (the name by which the standard is colloquially known) Reference number: ............................................. (assigned by the standards body, if any) Version: ............................................. (eg "1988" or "II") Sponsoring body: ............................................. (could be a standards body or [for de facto standards] a company name) Current status: ............................................. (eg DIS, or whatever) One-line description: ............................................. Detailed description: ............................................. (up to a page of information - or point me at an existing description which I could palagerise) Future development: ............................................. (where the standard is going) Products: ............................................. (any commercial/free products using the standard) Further information: ............................................. (references to the standard specification, to user groups, to FTP sites, mailing lists, etc) PRODUCTS ======== Product name: ............................................... Current version: ............................................... Manufacturer: ............................................... (name, address and email address) Supplier: ............................................... (if different from manufacturer) Platform: ............................................... (hardware & system software requirements) Description: ............................................... (up to a page of information - or point me at an existing description which I could palagerise) Future plans: ............................................... (future intentions for this or similar products) Availability: ............................................... (eg "available 1Q93", or whatever) Price: ............................................... (in currency of supplier's country - mention any site licence arrangements) Standards: ............................................... (distributed multimedia standards [industry standards or ISO/CCITT standards] used by the product) Further information: ............................................... (user group details, ftp site for product, published reviews, etc) Thanks for reading down to here! ------- End of Forwarded Message