scope:

The present document is the fourth in a multi-part series of "TS 102 822 series" documents produced by the TV-anytime Forum. These documents establish the fundamental specifications for the services, systems and devices that will conform to the TV-anytime standard, to a level of detail which is implementable for compliant products and services.

Although each of the TS 102 822 series documents is intended to stand alone, a complete and coherent sense of the TV-anytime system standard can be gathered by reading all of the specification documents in numerical order.

The scope of the present document of the specification comprises the location independent identification of content, the location information, and the process of finding the location when an identifier is given. The content referencing process begins after a content item has been selected by a consumer through to, but not including, the actual acquisition of the desired content item.

The content referencing specification provides the mechanisms for location resolution in unidirectional network environments , as well as support for location resolution in a bi-directional environment. as defined in TS 102 822-1 [8].