RE: Reigistry for tv:URI's

["Keesmaat, N.W. \(Iko\)" <[e-mail]>]

> 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?
We do not want to exclude Internet TV stations, but we do not need a new
identifier to point at recorded video clips (such as Youtube.com).

> 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.
Exactly. The keywords here are: 'real time', and 'broadcast', i.e.
multiple viewers.

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

Iko.

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