W15
From AMWA-EBU
Present: Evain Jean-Pierre, Pete Guglielmino, Yoshi Shibata, Giorgio Dimino, Paul Gardiner, Andreas Aust, Peter Brightwell, John Footen, Al Kovalick, Lewis Kirkaldie, Joey Faust
Apologies: Brad Gilmer, Paul Turner
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IPR rules
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Review of work progress in the specification development group
12 October: mainly feedback from IBM. Good input fromm IBM looking at issues discussed at the F2F in New-York.
Sony needs some more time ot progress and comment, which will be made at next call on 26 October, 16:00 CET
End of October is very likely too early for a first draft. The demo at NAB is the real deadline.
Media format / container is for discussion at the next call on 26th.
The draft, once published, will anyhow be opened for comments.
File transfer: several possible options have been mentioned that will need to be considered when defining the framework.
NAB
This represents a significant effort.
NAB: 9-14 April 2011
We have a preliminary description of the demo:
- is this reasonable and doable?
- how many companies can reasonably participate? A statement was made that to participate, a company must be a member of AMWA or EBU??
ACTION: This needs to be justifed/clarified.
The preparation work and service interoperability would be done over the internet. Different deadlines will be setup including for setting up the backbone (relying on IBM and SOny) and for other service providers willing to join the demo (e.g. services available by 15th March).
ACTION: Sony and IBM to check the availability of resources for doing this
Proposed approach to limit risk and cost overhead: Each company would have their equipment at their booth. This could also allow remote participation (e.g. BBC). Hopefully Internet bandwidth will be sufficient to support this at NAB but solutions can be found. Their would also be a central place with a common message being delivered along a common script/scenario (at the Renaissance). We want to demonstrate the usability and not the complexity.
What is the main value of the demo: 1. different vendors working together and things are happening 2. good networking in particular with companies like IBM and Sony 3. interoperability on service based infrastructure is important 4. implementing in full the 3 basic FIMS services is less important (Al Kovalick) although interoperability will need to rely on sharing common services for which the level of interoperability needs to be defined (difficulty to implement the whole API)
What is going to be the common message in addition to each vendor message? TBD
ACTION: Lewis to redocument the NAB plan with a specific script for the presentation at the Renaissance before the next webex and ask participants for their respoective plan for inveolvement in preparation of next webex on November 2nd, 17:00CET.
Choice of namespace
to be discussed later
Trademark
to be discussed later
Use of reflectors
Reminder of the text sent by e-mail:
ebu-amwa@list.ebu.ch for all general communication (everyone is on this reflector)
ebu_amwa_adm@list.ebu.ch is for communication with the coordination team.
Admin matters
- discuss participation rules in NAB demo
- define NAB budget a.s.a.p
AOB
None
Next meetings
October 26th, 16:00 CET, Specification drafting group
November 2nd, 17:00 CET (11:00 EST) specifically on NAB
