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Date:  02 October 1998
From:  mss@orangenet.co.uk
Subject:  Re: The Manufacturer's point of view

For James Janzen's information (and interested others)....

The European Broadcasting Union (together with European and Japanese
Electronics manufacturers) is currently developing TPEG (Transport
Protocol Experts Group).  TPEG is a bearer independent (hence can
be used equally successfully on DAB, DVB, GSM, Internet, RDS etc.)
protocol that can be can used to deliver information from one or
more information providers, to many receivers.  The defining of the
protocol is almost complete together with the first of many
applications - which happens to be for Road Transport messages.

Once this is complete (by the end of 1998) we'll move on to develop
other applications, which could include Public Transport,
Meteorological information, Air Travel applications etc.

One particular nice thing - it has been developed to be used without
proprietary databases etc. which so often prevent widespread adoption
because of commercial interests.

More info is available on the EBU web site        http://www.ebu.ch

Mark Saunders

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