- From: Patrick Schmitz <pschmitz@microsoft.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 14:03:42 -0700
- To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <Harald@Alvestrand.no>, Jack.Lang@ntl.com, Dan Zigmond <djz@corp.webtv.net>, www-tv@w3c.org
- Cc: mav@liberate.com, Dean Blackketter <dean@corp.webtv.net>
[snip] > > > > tv:abc.com (DNS domain name: American > Broadcasting Company) > > > tv:abc.net.au (DNS domain name: Australian Broadcast > >Corporation) > > > > > > >Problem with this is where one organisation (e.g. BBC at www.bbc.co.uk) >originates several channels (BBC1 BBC2, BBCChoice, BBCKnowledge,BBCNews24, >BBCParliament etc). > tv:bbc1.bbc.co.uk solves this. A URI is not just a domain name, but can describe hierarchy. Why not use an approach like: tv:bbc.co.uk/bbc1 You can further qualify each channel to distinguish versions of a channel (wide, regional, etc.) tv:bbc.co.uk/bbc1/wide tv:bbc.co.uk/bbc1/wales etc. Forgive me examples if "wales" is a poor choice for regional variant. I trust it conveys the point. Note also that these are URIs and not URLs. The path need not have any real-world or web-based meaning. Naturally, a broadcaster is free to provide equivalent http-based URLs for informative web pages if they so choose. Patrick Patrick Schmitz (pschmitz@microsoft.com) Program Manager - Internet Multimedia Standards Microsoft
Received on Tuesday, 31 August 1999 18:16:00 UTC