RE: DNS-like format for station names

The first reference below (tv:) is now RFC 2838.  However, it only provides 
the syntax to support this, not the infrastructure and RA.

I am told that IANA declined the author's request to be that RA.  So, I am 
leading an effort to propose this to SMPTE this week, who is the RA for 
other TV-related things, including MPEG stream_type's, etc.  So, it fits in 
that organization anyway.

If this list is interested, I will keep it posted on this effort.

         Mike

At 12:37 PM 7/10/00 +0100, Jack.Lang@ntl.com wrote:
>
>tv: "Uniform Resource Identifiers for Television Broadcasts"
>http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zigmond-tv-url-04.txt
>
>You may also be interested in:
>
>lid: "The Local Identifier (lid:) URI Scheme"
>http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-blackketter-lid-00.txt
>
>"Guide to TV Broadcast URLs"
>http://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-finseth-guide-01.txt
>
>(thanks to Craig Finseth (fin@finseth.com))
>
>JL
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Edward Avis
>To: www-tv@w3c.org
>Sent: 10/07/00 11:28
>Subject: DNS-like format for station names
>
>I recall that somebody created a way of identifying stations and
>channels which looked rather like DNS hostnames.  But grepping through
>all the docs on the TV Anywhere site I couldn't find it.
>
>Is there a web page describing this scheme or a particular document I
>should download?
>
>TIA,
>
>--
>Ed Avis
>epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk

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