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VEMMI URL Specification
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Network Working Group D. Mavrakis
Request for Comments: 2122 Monaco Telematique MC-TEL
Category: Standards Track H. Layec
ETSI
K. Kartmann
Telecommunication+Multimedia
March 1997
VEMMI URL Specification
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
1) Abstract
A new URL scheme, "vemmi" is defined. It allows VEMMI client software
and VEMMI terminals to connect to multimedia interactive services
compliant to the VEMMI standard (Enhanced Man-Machine Interface for
Videotex and Multimedia/Hypermedia Information Retrieval Services),
sometimes abbreviated as "VErsatile MultiMedia Interface".
VEMMI is a new international standard for on-line multimedia
services, that is both an ITU-T (International Telecommunications
Union, ex. CCITT) International Standard (T.107) [2] and an
European Standard (ETSI European Telecommunications Standard
Institute) standard (ETS 300 382 [3], obsoleted by ETS 300 709 [1]).
VEMMI could be described as an on-line multimedia protocol describing
both the man-machine interface and the client/server exchange
protocol. VEMMI operates usually on a single continuous session
between a client and a host and supports an object-oriented, event-
driven, client/server oriented and platform independent multimedia
interface. The well-known tcp port number 575 has been assigned by
IANA to the VEMMI protocol [13].
A description of the VEMMI standard along with its last approved
version is publicly available on the Web: see the URL
http://www.etsi.fr/ecs/projects/vemmi/vemmi.htm). A presentation of
VEMMI can be found on http://www.mctel.fr/VEMMI/vemmien_intro.html
Mavrakis, et. al. Standards Track