scope:

This Recommendation describes the overall aspects of audience measurement for IPTV services. It specifies the requirements, the architecture for IPTV audience measurement. It describes configuration, measurement reporting, and privacy.

This Recommendation presents the functions related to audience measurement distributed over the IPTV architecture. Audience measurements are constrained to the communications interface(s) between terminal device audience measurement functions and measurement aggregation functions. Subsequent Recommendations are anticipated to address communications interface(s) with audience measurement functions located within other functions of the IPTV architecture.