AW: Workshop feedback sought

Dear Philipp,

thank you very much for organizing the workshop and also for your
hospitality during these two days. I think, I got a good impression of
what is going on in the Internet developers community and how different
TV and Internet look at the convergence of these two medias. In my
opinion, the workshop was a good start to get deeper into discussions.

Answers to your questions in the text

Best regards
Alexander


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von:	Phoschka@aol.com [SMTP:Phoschka@aol.com]
> Gesendet am:	Montag, 6. Juli 1998 15:53
> An:	www-tv@w3.org
> Betreff:	Workshop feedback sought
> 
> Dear participants of "TV-Web":
> 
> At the end of the workshop, we came up with a prioritized list of 
> "TV-Web" topics that may require W3C action.
> 
> I said that I would also send around a "feeback form" afterwards to
> allow
> further ideas/discussion. You´ll find this at the end of this mail.
> 
> However, please feel free to simply drop me a note expressing 
> your personal view on future work on real-time multimedia within W3C
> after 
> participating at "TV-Web", or any other comments you might have on the
> 
> workshop.
> 
> It would be most useful if you could send this back until tomorrow
> nite 
> European time, since I´ll have to report to W3C management on
> Wednesday.
> 
> Feel free to respond to the list, or me personnally.
> 
> Technical review
> ----------------
> 
> An initial list of list of issues, opportunities and problems which 
> may need to be addressed by W3C in the area had been collected 
> at the end of the workshop.
> 
> The following topics had high priority:
> 
> 1. New URL-scheme for TV channels [high] 
>     (new URL for content in TV services) 
>      broadcast-specific data on the Web (SI/PSI-like metadata:
>       schedule, etc.) 
[AB]  What is ment with "broadcast-specific data on the Web"? Using
SI/PSI-data in HTML-pages (That shouldn't be too complicated)? Or
sending SI/PSI-tables to receivers on the Internet for tuning purposes
and program control information (Why should we do this)? Or something
else?
> 2. Broadcast HTML (tv-related profile of CSS, HTML, etc.) [high] 
> 3. Authoring guidelines [high] 
> 4. Default style sheet for TV [high] 
[AB]  Good points 2-4. I think our Intercast editorial crew could
contribute something on these topics.


> The following topics had medium to low priority:
> 
> 5. Metadata description/transport [10]
> 6. interaction mechanisms for streaming media, linking [10]  
> 7. controlling streaming media [6] 
> 8. filtering/transforming data for specific devices 
>     device profiles [6] 
>      (re-processing color palettes, guidelines for ~,...) 
> 9. accurate layout control[5] 
[AB]  Important point for a broadcaster. In my opinion should this be
high priority.
> 10. transition effects in CSS [5] 
> 11. temporal layout in CSS [3] 
> 12. API to VCR controls (and other devices) [3] 
[AB]  The API is one of the central points in Digital TV, very
complicated and not yet solved. I don't know how we could work on that.
> 13. "unidirectional HTTP" [2] 
> 14. caching streaming content [1] 
> 
> Questions
> ---------
> 
> Specific
> --------
> 
> -  Topic 1, "URL schemes for TV":  I´m wondering whether much of this
> hasn´t been already addressed by Dan Zigmond´s Internet Draft on
> "tv-urls". Unfortunately, it has been deleted from the draft 
> archive (see
> http://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zigmond-tv-url-01.txt).
> Dan, could you send a pointer to a newer version ?
> If you´re familiar with this work, how does it fall short of what is
> needed ?
> 
> - Topic 9, "accurate layout control": how do the positioning
> capabilities of
> CSS2
> or SMIL basic layout fall short here ? Both are existing W3C
> recommendations.
> They allow pixel-based x/y positioning, and z-ordering for
> "pseudo-3d".
> see
> http://www.w3.org/TV/Rec-css2
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/#region
> 
> - Topic 11, "temporal layout in CSS": what is the motivation of this ?
> SMIL
> already provides temporal layout, albeit as an XML-based format
> http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-smil/
> 
> General
> -------
> 
> Please go through this list of topics and try answering the following 
> questions for the topics you feel comfortable with:
> 
> - Do you believe you can contribute to this topic ? In which way ? 
> (note that any commitements here are provisional only)
[AB]  See above.
> - If the topic should not be treated by W3C, which other forum 
> should treat it ?
> 
> Looking at the list of all topics:
>  
> - Is there anything missing from the list ?
> 
> 
> Organisational review
> --------------------
> 
> - Did the workshop fullfill your expectations ?
[AB]  Yes, lots of ideas and informations
> - What did you get out of it ? 
> - What should be done differently next time ?
> 
> Thank you very much !
> 
> Best regards
> 
> -Philipp Hoschka
>

Received on Tuesday, 7 July 1998 09:27:11 UTC