Henning Timcke wrote: > On what protocols those other URL's would be used ? > Henning I mentioned two new and fairly distinct "families", broadcast URLs and home network URLs. For broadcast, protocols are based on the MPEG-2 Systems spec with extensions from such organizations as DVB and ATSC. (See the draft ATSC data broadcast specification as an example.) For home networking there are many technologies and protocols. For home networking based on IEEE 1394, there are a series of specifications (IEC 61883.x) that cover both connection management protocols and packet formats for "isochronous" data transfer. (IEEE 1394 and the IEC are likely to be important because, among other reasons, the FCC is promoting 1394 for connecting digital cable boxes to DTV receivers, see http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,25448,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.f). Little work has been done on URLs for home networking, but there a number of proposals for "broadcast URLs". See attached. Simon
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