RFC 4078 · INFORMATIONAL · 2005

The TV-Anytime Content Reference Identifier

Overview

RFC 4078, “The TV-Anytime Content Reference Identifier”, is an Informational document published in May 2005 by N. Earnshaw, S. Aoki, A. Ashley, W. Kameyama. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

The Uniform Resource Locator (URL) scheme "CRID:" has been devised to allow references to current or future scheduled publications of broadcast media content over television distribution platforms and the Internet.

The initial intended application is as an embedded link within scheduled programme description metadata that can be used by the home user or agent to associate a programme selection with the corresponding programme location information for subsequent automatic acquisition.

This document reproduces the \%TV-Anytime CRID definition found in the \%TV-Anytime content referencing specification, and is published as an RFC for ease of access and registration with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.

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