Re: Draft of Second Screen Presentation Working Group Charter available (was: Heads-Up: Plan for Working Group on Second Screen Presentation)

Hi Francois,

On 29 May 2014, at 04:01, mark a. foltz <mfoltz@google.com> wrote:

> Anssi, can you clarify what interoperability means in the context of this charter (and is there a W3C standard for it)?

Francois - I think you�d be in the best position to clarify W3C�s criteria and expectations for interoperability for Rec Track deliverables to Mark?

If the proposed charter needs to be updated on this aspect, I�d be happy to merge another pull request from you :-)

> I believe this would benefit from some clarification in the charter.  Here are some possible interpretations for two theoretical browsers UA1 and UA2 that I came up with.
> 
> 1. UA1 and UA2 are able to render and control a reference set of presentations on some screen using any technology of its choice.  Only the behavior of the API matters (as long as it sends the right events/messages it conforms).
> 2. UA1 is able to render a presentation on UA2 and control it, and vice versa.
> 3. If UA1 and UA2 implement the same technology (e.g., Airplay) , they must conform to the spec for that mechanism and interoperate with screens that support that technology.
> 4. UA1 and UA2 must be tested to interoperate via Presentation API with a reference set of non-browser-based devices independent of the underlying technology (e.g., API-level conformance).
> 
> None of the senses of "interoperability" listed above seems to exclude the use case described in this thread, especially if we incorporate a test suite for DIAL (under #3/#4).

Thanks,

-Anssi

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