Summary

Recommendation ITU-T H.760 identifies and describes the relevant standards of multimedia application frameworks for interoperability and harmonization in IPTV services. It gives an overview of standards for declarative application frameworks as well as standards for procedural application frameworks. For declarative application frameworks, standards to be used for IPTV are described (such as HTML, CSS, DOM, ECMAScript, SVG, BML, MHEG-5 and Ginga-NCL), while procedural application frameworks are represented by GEM-based frameworks. It also contains descriptions of ISO/IEC International Standards for application frameworks, namely M3M, BIFS and LASeR. Recommendation ITU-T H.760 also has an annex on common usage of web-related technologies.