Re: draft RFC to describe a URN for DTS audio

worley@ariadne.com (Dale R. Worley) Mon, 17 February 2014 22:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: draft RFC to describe a URN for DTS audio
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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