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<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/">World Wide Web Consortium<BR>
</A>Workshop<BR>
&quot;Real Time Multimedia and the Web&quot;<BR>
(RTMW '96)</H3>

<H3>October 24-25, 1996<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/">INRIA</A>-<A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/Unites/Sophia-eng.html">Sophia
Antipolis</A> - France</H3>

<UL>
<LI><B><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/minutes.html">Minutes</A></B></LI>

<LI><B><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html">W3C
Activity on Real-Time</A></B></LI>

<LI><B><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/index.html">Final
program</A></B></LI>

<LI><B><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/mbone.html">RTMW
broadcast via IP&nbsp;Multicast</A></B></LI>

<LI><B><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/RTMW96-call.html">Call
for Participation</A></B></LI>
</UL>

<P><I><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/RTMW96-fran.html">[Version
francaise]</A></I></P>

<H3>
<HR></H3>

<H2>Events at RTMW '96</H2>

<P>On October 24 and 25, the W3C workshop &quot;<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/RTMW96.html">Real-time
Multimedia and the Web</A>&quot; took place at the <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/">W3C</A>
site at <A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/Unites/SOPHIA-eng.html">INRIA Sophia-Antipolis</A>.</P>

<P>About 70 participants have registered, among them the chair of the IETF
working group on conference control (Mark Handley), a chief architect of
Apple Quicktime (Peter Hoddie), a co-author of RTSP (Rob Lanphier), one
of the editors of the RTP standard (Henning Schulzrinne), the former chair
of the MPEG Systems group (Jan van der Meer) and the deputy director of
W3C (Vincent Quint). 25% of the participants came from the US and 53% come
from industry, 47% from research organizations.</P>

<P>The first day of this two-day event dealt with multimedia formats. Morning
presentations both from industry (<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper01/paper01.html">Alcatel</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper04/paper04.html">Macromedia</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.w3.org./pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper20/paper20.txt">Apple</A>)
and from research organizations (<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper06/paper06.html">GMD</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper39/paper39.txt">University
of Massachusetts/Lowell,</A> <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper38/paper38.ps">INRIA
Grenoble)</A> set the stage for the discussions in the breakout sessions
in the afternoon. The day ended with a sessions on &quot;wild ideas and
strong opinions&quot; featuring talks on integrating games into the Web
(<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper08/paper08.html">University
of Oslo</A>), a caching infrastructure (<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper14/paper14.html">Oracle</A>)
and a call for action to browser developers for better integration of live
media (<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper16/paper16.html">University
of Ulm)</A>.</P>

<P>The hot topic of the second day was audio and video transmission on
the Internet. It included a presentation of <A HREF="ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rao-rtsp-00.txt">RTSP</A>
(Real-Time Streaming Protocol) by one of the co-authors of this standard.
RTSP has been proposed on October 9 by Netscape and Progressive Networks
as a standard protocol for accessing real-time multimedia sources on the
Internet. The first set of presentations discussed the feasibility of A/V
transmission on the Internet (<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper35/paper35.ps">University
of Lancaster</A>, <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper28/paper28.html">Columbia
University</A>, Nemesys). This is followed by a session in which interactive
television experts (<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper27/paper27.html">Philips</A>)
discussed with Internet experts (<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper13/paper13.ps">Lulea
University,</A> <A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/9610_Workshop/paper32/paper32.ps">UCL</A>)
whether digital television services could be realized using Web technology.
The second day finished with a discussion on the future directions of W3C
work in the area of real-time multimedia on the Web.</P>

<P>The workshop was transmitted live on the MBone using IP multicast.</P>

<P>On October 16, representatives of the following organisations had registered
for RTMW '96: Adobe (USA), Alcatel (France), Apple (USA), Bell Laboratories
(USA), Canon (Japan), CCETT (France), CDT (Sweden), CSELT (Italy), Columbia
University (USA), CWI (Netherlands), ENST (France), Ericsson (Sweden),
GMD (Germany), Havas Editions Electroniques (France), IBM (France), IGD
Fraunhofer Gesellschaft (Germany), IMAG (France), INRIA, (France) Lancaster
University (UK), Lucent (USA), Nemesys (UK), Nokia (Finland), Oracle (USA),
Technical University Valencia (Spain), Telecom Italia, Macromedia (USA+UK),
MC-Tel (Monaco), Philips Consumer Electronics (Netherlands), Progressive
Networks (USA), UCL/ISI (UK), University of Massachusetts/Lowell (USA),
University of Oslo (Norway), University of Ulm (Germany).</P>

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<HR WIDTH="100%"></H3>

<H3>SCOPE</H3>

<P>In the last year, there has been an increasing interest into the integration
of audio and video into the Web. The Web offers the unique opportunity
of fully integrating audio/video with many other media types (hypertext,
images, ...), making Web technology a contender for the &quot;television
of the future&quot;.<BR>
However, lacking both a forum for standardisation and a common reference
implementation, current solutions for audio/video integration into the
Web tend to be piecemeal and non-interoperable. The purpose of this workshop
is to provide a forum for exploring future directions of standardisation
process in this area within the W3C (World&nbsp;Wide&nbsp;Web Consortium).
Participants will be representatives of W3C member organisations and other
qualified experts from research and industry.<BR>
We solicit short position papers (one to maximally five pages) describing
anything from a &quot;wild idea&quot; to a complete specification or implementations.
The main areas of interest include (see also &quot;<A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity">W3C
Activity: Audio and Video</A>&quot;):</P>

<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor751322">Building
Web-based multimedia presentations</A></LI>

<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor751733">Time
representation and media synchronisation</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor752337">Defining
audio/video presentation</A></LI>
</UL>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor752870">Audio/Video
hyperlinks</A></LI>

<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor753151">URL's
for linking into audio and video files</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor753570">Addressing
&quot;streaming&quot; audio/video resources via URL's</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor754033">Embedding
URL's into audio and video streams</A></LI>
</UL>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor755016">Audio/Video
media formats</A></LI>

<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor755277">Describing
the format of audio/video resources</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor755890">A
common fall-back format for audio and video data</A></LI>
</UL>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/AudioVideo/Activity.html#anchor750374">Integration
of RTP (Real Time Transport Protocol)</A></LI>

<LI>Multicasting and the Web</LI>
</UL>

<H3>
<HR><A NAME="anchor2135465"></A>INFORMATION TO CONTRIBUTORS</H3>

<P>There will be a limit of 70 participants. There is no registration fee.
Potential participants should submit to the workshop chair short position
papers of one to five pages. Most importantly, the paper should state clearly
your potential contribution to/idea on the integration of real-time multimedia
into the Web. The papers can be submitted via e-mail (preferred) or in
paper form. Allowed formats for e-mail submissions are, in order of preference:
a URL to the paper, HTML, Postscript, PDF, RTF and ASCII.<BR>
Papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Based on the reviews,
we will ask a subset of participants to present talks. To maximize the
time spent in interactive discussions, not all attendees will make presentations.
However, all position papers will be included on the workshop website,
and will appear in the printed participants' proceedings. W3C may also
publish accepted papers.<BR>
Note: The website will be available ot the general public, so position
papers must be available for public dissemination.<BR>
Workshop participants may also be interested visiting the <A HREF="http://www.isi.edu/pfhsn96/">&quot;Protocol
for High-Speed Networks&quot;</A> conference, which is scheduled at INRIA
Sophia-Antipolis in the week after theW3C workshop.<BR>
<BR>

<HR></P>

<H3>PUBLICATION</H3>

<P>Papers will be made available on the Web. Printed participants' proceedings
will be distributed to workshop attendees. W3C may also publish accepted
papers in other media.<BR>

<HR></P>

<H3>ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE</H3>

<H4>Workshop Chair:</H4>

<P><A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/hoschka.html">Philipp
Hoschka</A><A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/Walid.Dabbous/me.html">,</A>
<A HREF="mailto:hoschka@w3.org">hoschka@w3.org<BR>
<BR>
</A>fax: +33 93 65 77 65</P>

<ADDRESS>INRIA Sophia Antipolis<BR>
2004 route des Lucioles, BP-93<BR>
06902 Sophia Antipolis, Cedex<BR>
FRANCE</ADDRESS>

<H4><B>MBone Chairs:</B></H4>

<P>Tie Liao, INRIA Paris</P>

<P><A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/Thierry.Turletti/me.html">Thierry
Turletti,</A> INRIA Sophia-Antipolis</P>

<H4><A NAME="anchor2127574"></A>Program Committee Members:</H4>

<UL>
<LI><A HREF="http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Mostafa.Ammar/MHA.html">Mostafa
Ammar</A>, <A HREF="http://www.gatech.edu/">Georgia Institute of Technology</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.eurecom.fr/Htdocs_CE/General/CE/People/erbi.html">Ernst
Biersack</A>, <A HREF="http://www.eurecom.fr/">Eurecom</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/bolot/bolot.html">Jean
Bolot</A>, <A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/">INRIA</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://131.107.1.182:80/research/BARC/JGemmell/">Jim Gemmell</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.microsoft.com/">Microsoft</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://holtzman.www.media.mit.edu/people/holtzman/">Henry
Holtzman</A>, <A HREF="http://www.media.mit.edu/">MIT Media Lab</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/huitema/huitema.html">Christian
Huitema</A>, <A HREF="http://www.bellcore.com/">Bellcore</A> </LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://hulk.bu.edu/bios/tom-little.html">Tom Little</A>, <A HREF="http://www.bu.edu/">Boston
University</A></LI>

<LI>Hui-Lan Lu, <A HREF="http://www.lucent.com/">Lucent</A></LI>

<LI>Jeff Payne, <A HREF="http://www.realaudio.com/">Progressive Networks</A></LI>

<LI><A HREF="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/">Henning Schulzrinne</A>,
<A HREF="http://www.cs.columbia.edu/">Columbia University</A></LI>

<LI>Patrick Soquet, <A HREF="http://www.havas.fr/">HAVAS</A></LI>

<LI>Daniel Swinehart, <A HREF="http://www.parc.xerox.com/">Xerox Parc</A></LI>
</UL>

<P>
<HR></P>

<H3>VENUE</H3>

<P>The workshop will be held at <A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/Unites/Sophia-eng.html">INRIA
Sophia Antipolis</A>. <A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/sophia_antipolis/welcome.htm">Sophia
Antipolis</A> is a technology park situated on the <A HREF="http://www.inria.fr/rodeo/personnel/hoschka/cote.html">French
Riviera</A>, close to Cannes, <A HREF="http://www.webstore.fr/couleur.htm">Nice</A>
and the Italian border. It easily reachable from <A HREF="http://www.cad.fr/english/intl.html#nice">Nice
International Airport</A> (20 minutes by car). Direct flights from the
US (New York) and most major airports in Europe are available. Hotel rooms
at various price categories will be reserved and proposed to the participants.<BR>
<BR>

<HR></P>

<ADDRESS>Last modified October 31, 1996.</ADDRESS>

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