Fwd: Media Types in 3GPP Timed text draft (was: RE: [AVT] RTP and Media Types)
Colin Perkins <csp <at> csperkins.org>
2004-08-09 15:15:11 GMT
I'm forwarding this question to the IETF-types list since I'm not sure
we have the experience to decide this in the AVT working grou. The
question is about draft-ietf-avt-rtp-3gpp-timed-text-04.txt: is it
appropriate to register the format under the "video" or "text"
top-level type?
Colin
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "Jose Rey" <rey <at> panasonic.de>
> Date: 5 August 2004 19:13:39 BST
> To: "Colin Perkins" <csp <at> csperkins.org>, "IETF AVT WG" <avt <at> ietf.org>
> Cc: Jan van der Meer <jan.vandermeer <at> philips.com>, Magnus Westerlund
> <magnus.westerlund <at> ericsson.com>, Dave Singer <singer <at> apple.com>,
> Yoshinori Matsui <matsui.yoshinori <at> jp.panasonic.com>
> Subject: Media Types in 3GPP Timed text draft (was: RE: [AVT] RTP and
> Media Types)
>
> Colin, Magnus, all,
>
> I would like to take the opportunity to make a call for comments on
> whether to registrate the 3GPP timed text payload format also under
> the "text" top level type. Two observations:
>
> In the 3GPP Timed text format, the text strings in the payload itself
> are encoded using UTF8 or UTF 16, which should be a sufficiently low
> requirement. Of course, all the decoration and nice features such as
> font/background color, scroll, hyperlinks, blinking text is lost.
> Since the main target of timed text is exactly applications that do
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