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IPTV Interface Standards Discovery Group -
Second Meeting -
September 7, 2005 conference call / web meeting
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AGENDA

• 1100 Attendees join
• 1110 Overview of meeting logistics and conduct
• 1130 Rules for CEA Discovery Groups and expected
  outcomes
• 1145 Recap findings and recommendations from
  first meeting
• 1200 Review developments since the last meeting
• 1230 Reaffirm or adjust possible standards to be
  developed
• 100 (break)
• 130 Establish viability of new standards areas,
  and timeframe for completion
• 230 Determine final recommendations scopes of
  any new projects and volunteers
• 330 Adjourn

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AGENDA

• 1100 Attendees join
• 1110 Overview of meeting logistics and conduct
• 1130 Rules for CEA Discovery Groups and expected
  outcomes
• 1145 Recap findings and recommendations from
  first meeting
• 1200 Review developments since the last meeting
• 1230 Reaffirm or adjust possible standards to be
  developed
• 100 (break)
• 130 Establish viability of new standards areas,
  and timeframe for completion
• 230 Determine final recommendations scopes of
  any new projects and volunteers
• 330 Adjourn

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Meeting Logistics

• Conference call
• No music on hold (please!)
• MUTE 6 / 6 does not toggle
• (use if there is background noise, e.g.
  cellphone, keyboard)
• Attendees are self-announced company and name
  (please)
• Web meeting
• Attendees company and name (please)
• Seating chart show color for vote
• Questions raise your hand
• Chat enabled

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Meeting Conduct

• Open forum all information is public
• Those present have a direct material interest
  in the work (no members of the press).
• No recording (audio, video)
• Post-meeting report and recommendations will go
  to R4.8 and R7 (cc to DG attendees)
• Legal Guides anti-trust http//members.ce.org/st
  andards/pdf/CEA_Legal_Guides8_05.pdf

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Meeting Conduct

• Improper Activities and Programs
• (1) Restraint of Trade Agreements
• (2) Prices and Pricing Policies
• (3) Terms and Conditions of
• Purchase and Sale
• (4) Costs
• (5) Future Plans
• (6) Boycotting Customers or Products

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Meeting Format

• Recap - where we left off --- (moderator)
• (perspectives, models, areas of interest,
  recommendations from staff and chairs of R7 and
  R4.8)
• Transpiring events - whats happened since ---
  (open floor)
• (R7 and R4.8 meetings, industry developments)
• Determine recommendations - next steps ---
  (interactive discussion)
• (adjust interest areas, project scopes,
  volunteers, coordination)

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Objectives

• To examine the emerging technologies for delivery
  of commercial video content as part of data sent
  to the home using internet protocols (IP) over
  telecommunications infrastructures and the
  associated home interfaces for use of the data in
  a home network and
• To determine if standards would be useful to
  facilitate growth in that emerging part of the
  consumer electronics industry, and if so, which
  types of standards.
• Harmony of emerging standards (including de
  facto market based standards) related to the
  technology will be considered.

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Possible Outcomes

• No standards projects recommended
• -or-
• One or more specific standards projects
• This is the final DG meeting
• (a DG can only hold 2 meetings)

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New Projects

• Threashold Criteria (Industry Support)
• Scope
• Contributors
• Chair
• Coordination groups
• A CEA standards committee (e.g. R7 or R4.8) must
  approve any new projects
• R7 also looks for extra due diligence
• (project resource needs, timeline,
  post-development plans, etc.)

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CEA Standards Scope

• the design and manufacture of consumer
  electronics (CE) products and related services
• CE device/service and device/device
  interoperability
• transmission signals that may traverse the
  demarcation points of telecommunications
  infrastructures

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AGENDA

• 1100 Attendees join
• 1110 Overview of meeting logistics and conduct
• 1130 Rules for CEA Discovery Groups and expected
  outcomes
• 1145 Recap findings and recommendations from
  first meeting
• 1200 Review developments since the last meeting
• 1230 Reaffirm or adjust possible standards to be
  developed
• 100 (break)
• 130 Establish viability of new standards areas,
  and timeframe for completion
• 230 Determine final recommendations scopes of
  any new projects and volunteers
• 330 Adjourn

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Key Questions

• How would standards help this developing new
  service?
• Which areas are already covered well by
  standards?
• Which standards are needed?
• Who is willing to contribute to setting new
  standards?

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Models
1 STB (gateway to STB) 2 Direct (gateway to
TV) 3 HN (gateway to LAN devices)
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Possible Standards

• Framework 12.5
• Remote diagnostics 11
• Service discovery and selection 10.5
• Interface to access network 9
• Testing regime 9
• Metadata 8
• Volunteers to participate
• Volunteer to chair

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Recommendations (from staff and committee
chairs, accepted by R4.8 and R7)

• R7 and R4.8 should request a follow up meeting of
  the Discovery Group by conference call to explore
  further the high interest areas from the first DG
  meeting, and provide a definitive recommendation.
• R7 and R4.8 should consider starting new
  projects, pending the results of the second
  discovery group meeting, particularly those where
  CE product manufacturers can contribute
  significantly and early to an integrated
  ecosystem.
• R7 and R4.8 should continue to coordinate their
  decisions and determine which group will lead any
  given project (but not undertake joint
  standards).
• CEA should establish formal and ongoing liaisons
  with ATIS and DSL Forum (CEA staff and R7/4.8
  chairs initially), and continue to monitor for
  others.

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Follow Up Questions

• All areas
• Are there any recent developments that would
  significantly change the areas identified in the
  first meeting?
• Are there a sequential relationships or
  dependencies among the areas?
• Can this area be recommended?
• Select areas
• What aspects of this area should be standardized?
• What assumptions about this area are necessary?
• What constraints need to be stated?
• What level of coordination with other standards
  activities is needed?
• What is the timeframe for completion?
• Is there a volunteer to chair?
• Are there volunteers to contribute?

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New Developments(open discussion)

• Program Guide info now available on 1394, so 1394
  might become more popular as an in-home platform
• This could affect the I/O on the interface access
  device

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Polling - All Areas
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IPTV Interface Standards Discovery Group - Second
Meeting - Sept. 7, 2005 conferencecall / web
meeting

• BREAK

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AGENDA

• 1100 Attendees join
• 1110 Overview of meeting logistics and conduct
• 1130 Rules for CEA Discovery Groups and expected
  outcomes
• 1145 Recap findings and recommendations from
  first meeting
• 1200 Review developments since the last meeting
• 1230 Reaffirm or adjust possible standards to be
  developed
• 100 (break)
• 130 Establish viability of new standards areas,
  and timeframe for completion
• 230 Determine final recommendations scopes of
  any new projects and volunteers
• 330 Adjourn

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Select Area 1Interface to the Access Network

• What aspects of this area should be standardized?
• Notes
• Area in flux depends on DLNA (ethernet) and
  Cable MSOs (1394)
• Focus on WAN first? Depends on framework?
  Includes audio, video, data?
• Depends on delivery model design for direct ?
• Includes
• Focus on higher layers
• The internet protocol stack that allows you to
  bind an IP address to a leaf network
• Physical connectors, bit rate, QoS (latency,
  jitter, etc.), IP suite (RTP, STP, etc.)
• Attachment, streaming, authentication/encryption
• Determine level of detail for quality and
  delivery of content to the interface

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Select Area 1 (cont.)Interface to the Access
Network

• What level of coordination with other standards
  activities is needed?
• DSL, DLNA, ATIS, IP Sphere, cableLabs (DOCSIS
  3.0)
• Is there a volunteer to chair?
• Hitachi, Motorola (?), Intel (?), Cisco (?)

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Select Area 2Framework

• What aspects of this area should be standardized?
• Notes
• Same as interface?
• Fixed and mobile?
• Includes
• The in-home portion (coordinate with outside)
• Content flow to termal device
• Abstract framework, with specific instances (e.g.
  interface, binding, etc.)
• Populate with components, reasona and negotiate
  among them (within the framework)
• Scalability, variations for device types
• Is there a volunteer to chair?
• Intel, Microsoft (some position ?),

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Select Area 3 Service Selection and Metadata

• What aspects of this area should be standardized?
• Notes
• Closely coupled areas, should be combined
• Phases of enabled activity publish, browse,
  resolve, stream, control
• Includes
• Service selection and discovery
• How to use parts of the metadata
• Resolve metadata to URL
• Instantiate and stream
• Authenticatio, authorizations
• Metadata
• About content, devices, and other
• Ratings, user preferences, device capability,
  etc.
• Are there volunteers to contribute?
• Dysney ABC, Neilson (maybe co-chairs)

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Next Steps

• Summary report and recommendations
• To R4.8 and R7
• From staff and chairs
• Includes where the work should be done
• cc to DG
• R7 and R4.8 meet in November
• Vote to approve new work
• Continue contact with liaison organizations
• DG disbands
• Final notice of R7 and R4.8 decisions
• General contact list and posting area retained

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Companies in Attendance

• ABC TV / Disney
• Alcatel
• ATIS
• BellSouth
• Cisco
• ConFocus
• Dell
• Dolby
• Echostar
• Ericsson
• Hitachi (2)
• HP
• Intel (2)
• JVC Americas
• Microsoft (2)
• Mitsubishi

• Motorola
• Nielsen
• Panasonic (5)
• PC TV - AV Connections
• Philips
• Pioneer (2)
• Samsung
• Sarnoff
• SBC
• Scientific-Atlanta
• SCTE
• Sony
• Thomson
• Verizon (2)
• WJR Consulting
• Zenith

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CEA Staff

• Virginia Williams...vwilliams_at_ce.org
• Brian Markwalter.bmarkwalter_at_ce.org
• Jean Johnsonjjohnson_at_ce.org
• Leslie Kinglking_at_ce.org

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