Timed text meeting Friday

We will hold a meeting this week to discuss a few items as we approach the end of our CR phase.

Agenda

1.       Short title. Dow we need to invent or modify the “brand” for Timed Text.

2.       Progress on ietf type registration

3.       File extension. (candidates include .dfxp, .ttxt)

4.       Implementation and test suite progress.

5.       Call for exclusion status

Sean Hayes
Media Accessibility Strategist
Accessibility Business Unit
Microsoft

Office:  +44 118 909 5867, 

Mobile: +44 7875 091385

I agree that DFXP is the best short form handle for this specification, and I’d like to promote that by adopting a .dfxp file name convention, I’ve been using that for a while anyway (it makes life a lot easier to find caption files than .xml). I think we should probably grab DFXP as a mac code, and also an MPEG 4 media container type, and anywhere else we think relevant while we are at it.

I’m not that fussed about renaming the specification, although I would have a preference for: Timed Text Markup Language (TTML) 1.0 – Distribution Format Exchange Profile (DFXP), which would get authoring out of the title, and emphasise its XML heritage and role as a precursor to other formats. If this requires anything much more than a search and replace in the spec though, I’m willing to forgo it. If we did adopt it, then .ttml is a fine file extention too, and as far as I know unused.

i won’t be able to make tomorrow’s call, but i’ve commented on two of the items below.

g.



On 10/15/09 9:44 AM, "Sean Hayes" <Sean.Hayes@...> wrote:

We will hold a meeting this week to discuss a few items as we approach the end of our CR phase.
Agenda
 
1.       Short title. Dow we need to invent or modify the “brand” for Timed Text.
GF:  i agree with glenn that we shouldn’t rename the spec (http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-tt/2009Sep/0021.html).  i also agree that we shouldn’t spend much time on this.  however, if we’re fishing for an official shorthand name to give to the public, i vote for DFXP.  it’s unambiguous (unlike “timed text,” which could be any timed-text format, such as QTText, RealText, SubRip or SAMI) and brief (unlike ttaf1-dfxp).

3.       File extension. (candidates include .dfxp, .ttxt)
GF:  i think .ttxt is similar to .txt and therefore might cause confusion.  i’m not unhappy with .xml, but i think .dfxp is the best possible extension because it immediately conveys what the file is.



 
Sean Hayes
Media Accessibility Strategist
Accessibility Business Unit
Microsoft
 
Office:  +44 118 909 5867,  
Mobile: +44 7875 091385