On Jun 9, 2009, at 4:45 AM, Internet-Drafts(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org wrote:
A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.
Title : HTTP Live Streaming
Author(s) : R. Pantos
Filename : draft-pantos-http-live-streaming-01.txt
Pages : 17
Date : 2009-06-08
This document describes a protocol for transmitting unbounded streams
of multimedia data over HTTP. It specifies the data format of the
files and the actions to be taken by the server (sender) and the
clients (receivers) of the streams. It describes version 1.0 of this
protocol.
A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-pantos-http-live-
streaming-01.txt
I find this draft to be quite annoying. It doesn't have anything
to do with HTTP or live, or really even streaming -- the title is
just from the marketing term that Apple has chosen to describe this
concept in general.
What the draft defines is a set of media type extensions to the
unregistered "audio/x-mpegurl" media type (M3U Playlist format)
that provide additional information for an indirect request of a
stream via sequential requests on the listed URIs. While I think
that might be a fine idea, it should start by registering the
media type being extended, and the title/introduction should reflect
what the document defines so that the right people will review it
prior to publication. I don't like it when the IETF is abused
for marketing purposes.
....Roy
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