RE: draft RFC to describe a URN for DTS audio

[Phillip Maness <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dale,
Historically, many 100's of millions of products containing DTS technologies over many 1000's of SKUs and hundreds of manufacturers have shipped worldwide. We have an extensive footprint in physical media, but we know that digital media and cloud services are quickly displacing this. We have publicly stated that this is our vision and where we are focusing our efforts.

Sorry, I have to be intentionally vague from this point on. We have a number of business activities in process so we have to consider customers, partners and competitors (and, of course, the financial community, as we are a publicly traded company). The nature of these disclosures in publications such as an RFC can be (intentionally or unintentionally) indicative, (or perceived as being indicative), of future business.

I will say that our prospects are considerably more extensive than audio parameters. Audio parameters were used as examples as they are fairly obvious to the current nature of our business. We have the potential for many thousands of references over multiple categories under the dts namespace.

While I can't put any more color to this in writing, I would be happy to schedule a phone conversation with myself and our VP of Streaming and Media Solutions to give you a better idea of how we plan to utilize this namespace. When would be a good time to schedule a call? Fridays are generally good for us.

Best Regards,
Phil Maness


-----Original Message-----
From: Dale R. Worley [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 2:46 PM
To: Phillip Maness
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: draft RFC to describe a URN for DTS audio

What are the objects that these URNs name?  As far as I can tell, the draft does not specify that.

It appears from the two examples that the objects are intended to be parameters which are attributes of particular DTS audio encodings.  In that case, it would seem that there will only be a small number (maybe tens or hundreds) of these URNs that are valid.  If so, it may save effort to have IETF allocate a sub-namespace, "urn:ietf:params:dts:..." into which DTS can assign paramater URNs.
(See https://www.iana.org/assignments/params/params.xml and RFC 3553.)

Dale

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