Re: Reigistry for tv:URI's

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

> I do not understand what you driving at here. In RFC2838 the tv:URI was
> explicitly defined as an identifier of television broadcasts.
> 
> Are we having a misunderstanding about what a TV broadcast is? 

perhaps.  that's why I was asking the questions I asked.  I don't 
understand where you want to draw the line between a "TV broadcast" and 
some other source of video programming. for example, we have "Internet 
radio" stations now, why not Internet TV stations?

offhand I think the difference between what I would call a "TV 
broadcast" and some other video program source is that a "TV broadcast" 
is immediate - that is, there are some set of viewers watching "in real 
time" (although of course it might also be possible to watch portions of 
it later) and the programming can therefore be chosen to fit the time at 
which it is broadcast.

> What we are needing is a way to identify what people would call *the* TV
> broadcast, i.e. if you have a device that can display NBC as received
> over the air and NBC as received over the cable and they are displaying
> the same television content at the same time, then that is what we would
> like to refer to.

that's fine.  I just don't think that the notion of TV broadcasts 
covered by tv: URLs should exclude internet-only broadcasters.

Keith