Web and TV Interest Group Charter

Timelines

The IG will, during its lifetime, undertake different activities that may proceed in parallel. No specific timeline has been identified at this point, but the various activities are intended to be running for a short period of time (2-12 months), with the possibility of running a few iterations of them.

Dependencies and Liaisons

W3C Groups

Groups that the IG will most likely cooperate with are:

CSS WG

Style for media applications

Device APIs WG

APIs for media related features/devices

Geolocation WG

Position detection of users and devices

HTML WG

Improving media support

Internationalization Core WG

Global issues in media services

Media Resource in-band Tracks CG

How user agents should expose in-band tracks as HTML5 media element video, audio and text tracks so that Web applications can access the in-band track information

Multi-device Timing CG

Support multi-device timing in media applications, such as multi-screen presentations

Multimodal Interaction WG

Multimodal/Media aspects of multimodal interaction

Protocols and Formats Working Group

Media-related accessibility issues

Semantic Web IG

Metadata for device capability/user preference

SVG WG

Scalable vector graphics for media presentations

Voice Browser WG

Speech interface and dialog control for TV and other media devices

Web Applications WG

APIs for media capabilities/functionalities

Second Screen Presentation WG

Specifications that enable web pages to use secondary screens to display web content

System Applications WG

Runtime environment, security model, and associated APIs for building Web applications with comparable capabilities to native application

Web Media Text Tracks CG

Text tracks for video on the Web, applied to captioning, subtitling and other purposes

Timed Text WG

Maintaining and developing new versions of the Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) based on implementation experience and interoperability feedback

TV Control API CG

API layer that is agnostic of any underlying video sourcing technologies to enable a web-based application to provide EPG information, control TV sources and interact with the TV platform

Web Performance WG

Methods to enhance aspects of application performance of user agent features and APIs

Privacy IG

Review on privacy considerations for Web and media topics

Web and Broadcasting BG

Discussion on the influence of Open Web Platform on the professional world of TV broadcasting

Web and Mobile IG

Requirements of Web technologies that enable the development or use mobile devices as hubs of connected user experiences

Web Security IG, Web Application Security WG

Security considerations for media topics

External Groups

There are a number of external groups working in areas related to the ones in scope for the Web and TV IG. The Interest Group should determine whom to communicate with and then maintain communication with them. The following groups are likely to be important:

ANSI

The American National Standards Institute is a private, non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the US.

ARIB

The Association of Radio Industries and Businesses is aimed to conduct investigation, research & development and consultation of utilization of radio waves from the view of developing radio industries, and to promote realization and popularization of new radio systems in the field of telecommunications and broadcasting.

ATSC

The Advanced Television Systems Committee provides standards for digital television transmission over terrestrial, cable, and satellite networks.

CableLabs

Cable Television Laboratories, Inc. is a non-profit research and development consortium that has cable operators as its members, and works for requirements for new technologies and new services.

CEA

The Consumer Electronics Association is the trade organization for the consumer electronics industry in the US, which promotes U.S. consumer technology industry through technology policy, events, research, promotion and the fostering of business and strategic relationships. CEA sponsors the annual International Consumer Electronics Show (CES).

DECE (a.k.a UltraViolet)

The Digital Entertainment Content Ecosystem is a consortium of major Hollywood studios, consumer electronics manufacturers and retailers, network hardware vendors, system integrators, and Digital Rights Management (DRM) vendors.

DLNA

Digital Living Network Alliance produces open standards and widely-available industry specifications for entertainment devices and home networks.

DVB Project

The Digital Video Broadcasting Project is an industry-led consortium of broadcasters, manufacturers, telecomm companies, cable operators, software developers, regulatory bodies and others in over 35 countries committed to designing open technical standards for the global delivery of digital television and data services.

EBU

The European Broadcasting Union is an alliance of public service media organizations, comprising 74 Active Members in 56 countries and 37 Associate Members from a further 22 countries. Its mission is to defend the interests of public service media (PSM) and to promote their indispensable contribution to modern society.

ETSI

The European Telecommunications Standards Institute produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and internet technologies.

HbbTV Consortium

The HbbTV consortium is a pan‐European initiative founded by both television broadcasters and CE companies and is aimed at providing an alternative to proprietary technologies and delivering an open platform for broadcasters to deliver value added on‐demand services to the end consumer.

IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force is an open-standards development organization which develops and promotes Internet standards, cooperating closely with the W3C and ISO/IEC standards bodies and dealing in particular with standards of the TCP/IP and Internet protocol suite.

IPTVF-J

IPTV Forum Japan was established to promote the standardization of IPTV receivers and services and also promote the wide use and enhancement of defined standards. It aims to achieve this by standardizing technical specifications that provide current and future receivers with IPTV capability and thereby allow broadcasting and telecommunication to coexist.

ITU-T

ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is the part of the UN agency ITU that defines elements in information and communication technologies infrastructure. Their work includes Multimedia Application Framework for IPTV services. For example, H.762: Lightweight interactive multimedia framework for IPTV services (LIME) gives a subset of HTML, CSS and ECMAScript for use in IPTV terminals.

MPEG

The Moving Picture Experts Group is a working group of ISO/IEC in charge of the development of standards for coded representation of digital audio, video and related data.

OASIS

Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards is a not-for-profit consortium that promotes industry consensus and produces worldwide standards for security, Cloud computing, SOA, Web services, the Smart Grid, electronic publishing, emergency management, and other areas.

SBTVD

The Fórum do Sistema Brasileiro de TV Digital Terrestre is the Brazilian organization which edits the Ginga specifications widely spread in Latin America. Ginga-NCL integrates a web component and some liaison should be considered at some point.

SMPTE

The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers, founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is an international professional association, based in the United States of America, of engineers working in the motion imaging industries. An internationally recognized standards organizations, SMPTE has over 400 standards, Recommended Practices and Engineering Guidelines for television production, film making, digital cinema, audio recording and medical imaging.

(This is not intended as an exhaustive list, but illustrative of groups working on related technologies)