RFC 4078 on The TV-Anytime Content Reference Identifier (CRID)

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        RFC 4078

        Title:      The TV-Anytime Content Reference Identifier (CRID)
        Author(s):  N. Earnshaw, S. Aoki, A. Ashley, W. Kameyama
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       May 2005
        Mailbox:    nigel.earnshaw@rd.bbc.co.uk,
                    shig@center.jfn.co.jp, aashley@ndsuk.com,
                    wataru@waseda.jp
        Pages:      10
        Characters: 21433
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-earnshaw-tv-anytime-crid-04.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4078.txt

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) scheme "CRID:" has been devised to
allow references to current or future scheduled publications of
broadcast media content over television distribution platforms and
the Internet.

The initial intended application is as an embedded link within
scheduled programme description metadata that can be used by the home
user or agent to associate a programme selection with the
corresponding programme location information for subsequent automatic
acquisition.

This document reproduces the TV-Anytime CRID definition found in the
TV-Anytime content referencing specification, and is published as an
RFC for ease of access and registration with the Internet Assigned
Numbers Authority (IANA).

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