SMPTE Standardization of Declarative Content for Television

WWW TV Interest Group-

On Friday (3/3) an Ad Hoc Group (AHG) was formed in the SMPTE Working Group 
on Data Essence (D27) to:

1. Work towards the harmonization of next generation XHTML content being 
contemplated by the major transport standards (ARIB, DVB, and ATSC).

2. More formally document and standardize ATVEF as a first level content 
authoring standard

First rough drafts of the SMPTE Standard documents for (2) were provided at 
the meeting.  They will be posted to the SMPTE private engineering ftp 
server later this week.

An email list was created for the AHG, called D27-DDE, with myself as chairman.

The liaison to ARIB is Mr. Akihiro Hori, chairman of the ARIB XML 
group.  Liaisons to W3C, DVB and ATSC are pending.

SMPTE is a certified standards body devoted to television (and film) 
founded in 1916 and an accredited "due process" organization by ANSI (and 
thus ISO).  Its focus is on studio and pre- and post-production technical 
standards.  Details on SMPTE and participation in its working groups can be 
found at:

	http://www.smpte.org

A statement of participation is required to join D27 and the email list 
mentioned above.  Please see the SMPTE website for more information.  When 
submitting your SOP, you should specifically request participation in 
"D27-DDE".

It is *not* the intent of SMPTE to develop XML or any other standards in 
W3C's domain, but rather to work closely with W3C to accomplish this.  So, 
I look forward to working with everyone on this list and at W3C in general 
on creating international television standards in the field of declarative 
content.

Regards,
	Mike
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Michael A. Dolan, Representing DIRECTV,  (619)445-9070
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