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From AMWA-EBU

Contents 1 FIMS and RFT respondents meeting, Washington D.C., 10-12 August 2010 2 Proposed workplan 3 Requirements in scope 4 Specification outline 4.1 High Level Architecture 4.2 Media Service Management 4.3 Media Service Awareness 4.4 Media Service Communication 4.5 Media Content Awareness 4.6 Time awareness 4.7 Security and identity 4.8 Framework Extensions 4.9 Implementation bindings 5 Working procedure 6 Meetings 7 Timeline 8 IBC 2010

FIMS and RFT respondents meeting, Washington D.C., 10-12 August 2010

FIMS Board: Giorgio Dimino (RAI), John Footen (ChimeMedia), Brad Gilmer (AMWA), Jean-Pierre Evain (EBU). Hans Hoffmann (EBU) (part of time online)

Respondents: CINEGY (Lewis Kirkaldie), IBM (Peter Gulglielmino, Frank Schaffa, Praveen Dharmavaram) , BBC (Peter Brightwell and Richard Cartwright, Portability for Media), Amberfin (Bruce Devin, part of time online), Sony (Toshiaki Kojima)

Invited experts: Joey Faust (NTC), Oliver Morgan (MetaGlue)

After a brief introduction, all respondents have been invited to present their respective submissions in presence of the other respondents.

Proposed workplan

The FIMS Team made the following proposal to move forward:

1. Focus on phase 1, framework definition. The base of the specification will be a combination of the IT-centric IBM proposal and Sony's media centric proposal. All other respondents who have proposed services are of course invited to actively influence the work through well deinfed requirements.

2. The specification will propose a recommendation for a common container format to carry media between services.

3. A reference implementation will be made before completion of the specification according to AMWA working procedures.

Requirements in scope

The following requirements from RFT's Annex 1 have considered to be within scope of the phase 1 specification:

• Service Discovery (service description necessary to support service discovery inc. definition of service parameters and constraining criteria on these parameters and SLA descriptions of discovered services/patterns). Service registries are out of scope.
• Service Lifecycle Management
• Service Instance and Event Management (inc. service behaviour, network traffic control, monitoring)
• Resource-bound services
• Dynamic services
• Service Level Agreement (SLA) Management (inc. rendition and versions, content access time, deadlines)
• Large media files
• Media Formats
• Media Transfer and media stream management
• Partial Content Item Handling
• Metadata management
• Federated Service Coordination
• Delayed Input (offline media)
• Real Time Interaction
• Interaction with legacy hardware
• Ownership and access control

Specification outline

The objective of the meeting was to develop the following specification outline to be advertised starting with IBC 2010:

High Level Architecture

• Reference Architecture
• Definitions

Media Service Management

• Service lifecycle
• Service behaviour

Media Service Awareness

• Service Registry
• Service level agreements (SLA)

Media Service Communication

• Service description
• Media Service interface Schemas
• Message format/patterns
• Operations
• Job descriptions

Media Content Awareness

• Definition of an asset
• Media formats
• Efficiency,
• Provenance/version

Time awareness

• Scheduling for real-time
• Parallel simultaneous processes (streaming media, ingesting files)

Security and identity

• Service security
• Media security
• Client context

Framework Extensions

• Framework lifecycle
• Taxonomy
• SLA ontology

Implementation bindings

• REST
• WS-*

The different contributions have been mapped to the outline.

Working procedure

Three groups will be setup:

• group 1: develop the specification starting from material in existing contributions

ACTION: IBM and Sony to work on a preliminary draft for peer review by all FIMS participants. 

• group 2: Reference implementation; prepare demonstrations (transcode and interactive capture) for NAB and identify priorities in specification requirements

ACTION: Amberfin, BBC and Cinegy start working on the demonstrations for transcode and interactive capture

• group 3: user group to review work progress

IMPORTANT NOTE: for all these subgroups, working meetings (webex, F2F) should be publicly announced on the reflector

Meetings

• Sunday 12 September,9-12:00 IBC/Novotel: FIMS and respondents meetings
• Webex progress report meetings, every two weeks on Thursdays at 15:00 CET (9:00 am EST), starting August 26, September 30 and then regular occurence.

Timeline

The timeline for this work is:

• Specification outline ready for IBC 2010 (Sept 2010) for presentation in the paper and special FIM sessions with the active participation of the main contributors
• First draft of the specification end of October 2010
• Reference implementation (e.g. results of a plug fest) and presentation at NAB 2011 and possibly HPA 2011 (more visibility but in February).
• Final specification targeted towards end of first half of 2011

IBC 2010

Communication will be done developing and sharing a FIMS logo to be displayed by contributors/adopters/implementers on their respective booths.

CINEGY kindly proposed to provide some space for AMWA and FIMS presence. Other participants with a booth should have a leaflet ready for distribution.

Two events will address FIMS on Saturday:

• Morning session on "taking production and post to another level", paper on FIMS
• Afternnon "value added" session on 'media service interoperability' jointly organised by AMWA and EBU.