- From: <djz@corp.webtv.net>
- Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 13:23:32 -0700
- To: "'Philipp Hoschka'" <ph@w3.org>, <www-tv@w3.org>
I've volunteered to take a stab at writing a document on TV-oriented URL schemes. I happen to be already working on a revision to my original IETF Internet-Draft on "tv:", so the timing works out well to bring this into the interest group. It sounds to me like there's probably more than one URL scheme needed anyway: there's a generic URL for TV broadcasts that is transport independent (like "tv:") and then there are probably several transport-specific schemes (like "dvb:"). The first is more like a resource name than a locator (describing a given broadcast stream, rather than explaining where to find it), whereas the second class of schemes are true resource locators. Since my old "tv:" URL draft has expired, I've put it up on our local Web site at http://www.microsoft.com/dtv/draft-zigmond-tv-url-00.txt. This was just an early draft, so understand that I'm not proposing this as the final answer for us. But I hope it helps get the discussion going. Dan --------------------------------------------------- Dan Zigmond Co-Manager, Interactive Television Senior Manager, Interactive Television Standards WebTV Networks, Inc. djz@corp.webtv.net --------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Philipp Hoschka [mailto:ph@w3.org] Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 1:12 PM To: www-tv@w3.org Subject: Getting started In the immediate future, we need to address the following discussion items from http://www.w3.org/TV/TVWeb 1) Document on TV-specific requirements on CSS 2) Document on "tv" URL-scheme The page already lists a number of people that have expressed interest to do the work required here. It also lists the current status that I'm aware of, e.g. which documents already exist. To get started, I guess the best way to procede is for one or more of the people listed as "workers" for each topic to come up with strawman proposal(s) on these topics, and send them to this list. To distinguish between the two topics, please put "URL:" or "CSS:" at the beginning of the subject line. The page also lists a discussion item on a "Document on TV-specific requirements on HTML". My feeling is that this has been a bit overtaken by events since the IG proposal was written, since different groups have already started to work on this (see page for details) If there are no objections, I would thus like to change this work item into reviewing eventual working drafts coming out of these groups on whether they meet the TV-specific requirements they claim to address, rather than writing our own requirements document. However, I'm open to suggestions. -Philipp Hoschka, W3C ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Philipp Hoschka | http://www.w3.org/people/hoschka | | World Wide Web Consortium | MIT-LCS ph@w3.org | 545, Technology Square Tel:(+1) 617.258.0604 | Cambridge, MA 02139 Fax:(+1) 617.258.5999 | USA ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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