*VidMid-VoD Conference Call*
November 26, 2001

*Attendees*

Mairead Martin (chair) - Tennessee
Steve Olshansky - Internet2
Phil Galanter - NYU
Ken Klingenstein - Colorado/Internet2
Jim DeRoest - Washington
Renee Frost - Michigan/Internet2
Grace Agnew - Georgia Tech
Ben Chinowsky (scribe) - Internet2

*Discussion*

The group approved the minutes of the previous meeting. Mairead noted that the VidMid-VC F2F is coming up later this week; [AI] Steve will add VoD issues to the VidMid-VC F2F agenda where appropriate, and will look through the VidMid-VC testbed plan for things for VidMid-VoD to leverage.

The group briefly reviewed progress on the VidMid-VoD scenarios; there was general agreement that getting the scenarios out is VidMid-VoD's top priority. Mairead has set up a staging site for the scenarios at http://www.ait.utk.edu/VidMid/VoD/scenarios/scenarios.html. Ken urged the group to avoid scenarios that require PDPs at both ends.

The group reviewed action items:

[19-October - Mairead will collate and prioritize the existing VidMid-VoD scenarios.]
Still to do.

[19-October - Steve will find out if any of the VidMid scenarios involve both videoconferencing and video on demand.]
Done; scenarios 4 and 5 of http://middleware.internet2.edu/video/draft-internet2-vidmid-vc-scenarios-01.html involve both VC and VoD. [AI] Mairead will post VidMid-VC scenarios 4 and 5 on http://www.ait.utk.edu/VidMid/VoD/scenarios/scenarios.html.

[19-October - Phil will send Mairead new VoD scenarios.]
Done.

[19-October - Bob will either write a concise infrastructure model for a rights-management PDP or get someone else to do this.]
Still to do.

[19-October - Ted will contact Sam Gustman about using VHF content in a digital rights management pilot project.]
[AI] Ken will follow up with Ted re working with VHF.

[19-October - Mairead will look for other video resources that VidMid-VoD could use as content in a digital rights management pilot project.]
In process. Mairead noted that she and Grace will be proposing a cooperative DRM effort at the CNI meeting this week; this could be a rich source of content for VidMid-VoD. Another likely source is the Association of Moving Image Archivists (http://www.amianet.org), which recently adopted Grace's proposal to create a union catalog for their archive.

[19-October - Mairead and Steve will summarize VidMid-VoD's planned projects and get feedback from the list.]
In process.

Finally the group discussed possible funding opportunities for VidMid-VoD. There was general agreement that the group should pursue funding for work on tools for digital rights management; Mairead noted that such tools could make possible the digitization of many video collections that are currently languishing in analog format. One important part of putting together a proposal will be to identify and get permissions for content that a) is of interest to higher education and b) has digital rights issues that need to be managed, but there was general agreement that this is not likely to present much of a problem. Grace stressed the importance of distilling a core rights-metadata specification from the welter of competing metadata standards, so that VidMid-VoD's work will be relevant no matter which standard emerges as dominant, but agreed that this is not something for which VidMid-VoD needs to pursue funding. Grace estimates that the distilling process will take about a year; it should be able to proceed in parallel with programming work on the rights-management tools. [AI] Ken, Mairead, and Grace will meet with Cliff Lynch at CNI to discuss funding opportunities for VidMid-VoD; Mairead will send VidMid-VoD a summary of this meeting.

*Action Items*

[AI] 26-November - Steve will add VoD issues to the VidMid-VC F2F agenda where appropriate, and will look through the VidMid-VC testbed plan for things for VidMid-VoD to leverage.
[AI] 26-November - Mairead will post VidMid-VC scenarios 4 and 5 on http://www.ait.utk.edu/VidMid/VoD/scenarios/scenarios.html.
[AI] 26-November - Ken will follow up with Ted re working with VHF.
[AI] 26-November - Ken, Mairead, and Grace will meet with Cliff Lynch at CNI to discuss funding opportunities for VidMid-VoD; Mairead will send VidMid-VoD a summary of this meeting.
[AI] 19-October - Mairead will collate and prioritize the existing VidMid-VoD scenarios.
[AI] 19-October - Bob will either write a concise infrastructure model for a rights-management PDP or get someone else to do this.
[AI] 19-October - Ted will contact Sam Gustman about using VHF content in a digital rights management pilot project.
[AI] 19-October - Mairead will look for other video resources that VidMid-VoD could use as content in a digital rights management pilot project.
[AI] 19-October - Mairead and Steve will summarize VidMid-VoD's planned projects and get feedback from the list.