Thirteenth General Assembly

11th February 2019

EBU, Geneva

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General Assembly

14:00 - 17:00

https://radiodns.org/organisation/general-assembly/ga-feb-19/general-assembly/

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Introductions

Walter Huijten, Chair

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Welcome New Members

NPR�Distribution Services

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Agenda

Members’ Business

2018 Review and Discussion

Elections followed by coffee

2019 Plans & Discussion

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https://radiodns.org/organisation/general-assembly/ga-feb-19/general-assembly/

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Meeting Format

Round table / open-line

Interactive presentation / discussion

Honest, open, engaged

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You are the “shareholders” of RadioDNS

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Members’ Business

Ben Poor, Secretary

Voting

For each vote we will ask

• All those who agree say “yes”
• All those who disagree say “no”

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Vote

Do you approve the minutes of the Twelfth General Assembly?

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RadioDNS Accounts

Our accounts are reviewed each year�by an independent chartered account.

As a small organisation we are exempt from audit, which would be disproportionately expensive.

View the accounts in full at

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https://radiodns.org/organisation/general-assembly/ga-feb-19/general-assembly/

Accounts 2018

GBP 1.00 =�EUR 1.14 USD 1.29�AUD 1.82 NOK 11.18�CHF 1.29

2018 v 2017

Balance Sheet

RadioDNS Limited is registered as a not-for-profit organisation, so does not pay tax on its normal activities, but cannot distribute its surplus to members.

In the event of RadioDNS being wound up, its assets must be transferred to an organisation pursuing the same aims as RadioDNS.

Vote

Do you approve the 2018 Accounts?

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Steering Board 2018

Review of Actions and Decisions

Steering Board Members 2018

* Dave Walters (BBC) has deputised for Sean during 2018

Steering Board Meetings 2018

The board met 4 times:

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https://radiodns.org/organisation/steering-board/steering-board-2018/steering-board-meetings-2018/

Activities 2018

Operations

Education

Organisation

Operations

Operating the DNS service

Andy Buckingham is our DNS Sysadmin

Multiple cloud instances globally

100% uptime in 2018

Typical response time <20ms

Also operating hbbtvdns.org

DNS Registrations

All requests are validated

Change requests are validated with the incoming service provider and broadcaster

>90% of valid change requests processed within 1 working day

Technical Support

Over 300 support requests handled

• Broadcasters, manufacturers, service providers

Implementation questions

Troubleshooting and fault reporting

Suggestions for test patterns

Writing HOWTO documents for the website

Technical Support Tools

SI Generator / Editor - si.radiodns.org

Test signals - audio streams and live DAB ETI streams for bench testing

Utilities and library code - open source

Platform testing platform - prerequisite for certification

Education

Education

Why Hybrid Radio?

Why Open Standards?

Why RadioDNS?

Why Compliance?

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Why Hybrid Radio?

Combing broadcast and IP creates a better experience of radio than using either in isolation.

Why Open Standards?

Open Standards are durable, interoperable, and create the biggest ecosystem of content and devices.

Why RadioDNS?

RadioDNS is here to enable the hybrid radio market, not participate in it.

Why Compliance?

Compliance is an assurance that you’re buying technology that will work correctly.

RadioDNS in the chain

Optional

Optional

Service Provider

Broadcaster

Manufacturer

Hardware

Provider

Metadata & Content Licence

Technology

Provider

RadioDNS�Technical Standards

Receiver Compliance Test Point

Service Compliance Test Point

Non RadioDNS Services / Content / Broadcasters

Only tests compliance�of RadioDNS services

Only tests compliance�of RadioDNS services

Common Questions

Q: Do we choose RadioDNS or something else?

A: It’s not an either / or decision. Support RadioDNS AND you can do something else too. In most cases, supporting RadioDNS will get you the “something else” as well.

Common Questions

Q: What’s your business model? What you sell?

A: We don’t have a business model, other than growing the number of broadcasters and manufacturers who support hybrid radio. We don’t sell anything to anyone; we make it possible for you to get value from hybrid radio.

Common Questions

Q: Why get metadata using RadioDNS?

A: RadioDNS gets you direct access to broadcaster approved and managed metadata. If something isn’t right, the broadcaster can update it themselves, directly.

Common Questions

Q: You don’t have all the radio stations in RadioDNS. What can we do about that?

A: You can use other solutions if you try using RadioDNS first. And if you tell us you’re using RadioDNS, we can tell radio stations, and more radio stations will start using RadioDNS.

Common Questions

Q: How does RadioDNS work with DAB?

A: It’s one technical standard, two distribution methods. It doesn’t matter if you get metadata over DAB or via RadioDNS, it’s the same. Use both, if you can.

Shows and Conferences

Education in Person

RadioDNS In Real Life

Making the vision real and tangible

Showing devices, services

Interactive discussion

addressing business specific questions

Making new contacts

RadioDays Europe 2018

RadioDays Europe 2018

NAB Show 2018

NAB Show 2018

Meetings

NAB RadioShow - NAB Automotive Committee

Presentation by Audi

WorldDAB Automotive User Experience Group

Meetings with Automotive Manufacturers

CES 2019

Meetings with US Broadcasters

2018 Tour

Special Thanks

Christian and Martin, Audi

• Audi A8 for RadioDays Europe
• Audi Demonstrator for NAB Show
• Presentation to NAB Automotive Committee
• One on One meetings
• Test drives in Europe, USA, Australia

Organisation

Organisation

How can we grow hybrid radio faster?

Removing Obstacles

Broadcasters have been concerned about uncontrolled distribution of their metadata.

Manufacturers have been concerned about having to agree to thousands of different agreements.

Our solution:

• Provide a way to identify requests
• Provide a standard Terms Of Use

Technology Group

Chair, Ben Poor (EBU)

Role of the Technical Group

To develop and implement RadioDNS standards

Open to members of RadioDNS

Work arranged in “Project Teams”

Current Membership

Technology Group 2018

Standards Updates in 2018

TS 102 818 (Service and Programme Information)

TS 103 270 (Hybrid Radio Lookup)

SPI Standard Update

Added Client Identifier - to allow restriction of sensitive metadata to known parties

Updated HD Radio bearers - to reflect actual real-world use and HD-multicasts

Fixed XSD references caused by changes to GeoRSS

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Hybrid Radio Lookup

Updated HD Radio bearers - in line with changes to SPI

Minor editorial corrections

Technology Group Chair/Vice-Chair

Call for interest in taking the Chair and vice chair roles

Initial 12 month role for the Chair extended until February 2019 for fresh elections

Plans for 2019

Complete changes to Hybrid Lookup specification

Add phoneme, contributors functionality to SPI

Create a better working platform for the TG

Complete changes to support HLS/DASH

Compliance and Certification

Verifying RadioDNS Implementations

RadioDNS in the chain

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Optional

Service Provider

Broadcaster

Manufacturer

Hardware

Provider

Metadata & Content Licence

Technology

Provider

RadioDNS�Technical Standards

Receiver Compliance Test Point

Service Compliance Test Point

Non RadioDNS Services / Content / Broadcasters

Only tests compliance�of RadioDNS services

Only tests compliance�of RadioDNS services

Compliance Testing

Demonstrates that technology solutions follow our standards.

Self-certification programme, on-line testing.

Xperi certified their Connected Radio platform in March 2018

Growth

Membership

We would like to hit 30 members in 2019

Coverage Growth

United States (FM and HD Services added)

Canada (Launched by Radioplayer Canada)

Russia (In progress)

DNS Registrations

15% increase in registrations in 2018

Number of registrations has nearly doubled in 3 years

Audi & RadioDNS

The first automotive manufacturer in the world to integrate RadioDNS functionality

Automatic switching between broadcast radio and IP streaming

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Continuous listening

Single station list navigation with accurate station logos

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Automatically chooses the best way to listen

Single push presets

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Always finds the station you want

Discussion

2018 Activities

Steering Board Decisions 2018

• Instructed a review of our compliance with GDPR
• Approved submission of updates of our technical standards to ETSI
• Approved 2019 Q1 Budget
• Approved renewal of the Project Director contract to January 2020
• Approved draft Standard Terms of Use of Broadcaster Metadata

Voting

Do you approve the decisions of the Steering Board in 2018?

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Steering Board Elections

2019-2020

Steering Board Elections

The entire board (Chair, Secretary and 9 members) must be re-elected every two years.

All existing board members can stand again.

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Nomination period: 2nd - 31st January 2019

Election period: 4th - 11th February 2019

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Nominations

A member can nominate any individual to be a Steering Board member

That individual must act in the best interests of the members of RadioDNS

Legal requirements for a UK Company Director

Steering Board Candidates

Steering Board Voting

Does anyone need to cast a (new) ballot?

Results after coffee

VOTE NOW

Coffee Break

20 Minutes

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Steering Board Elections

2019-2020

Steering Board Results

Steering Board 2019-2020

First meeting of new board will be in April / May.

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Please thank our outgoing Chair, Walter Huijten for his leadership and commitment over the last two years.

Plan for 2019

Strategy, Plan and Budget

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2019 Plan

Respond to two challenges:

• Rapidly growing demand for support
• Sustained requirement for education

2019 Actions

New Project Co-ordinator to handle admin.

New Technical Project Manager to deliver technology projects.

Project Director will focus on growth, strategic engagement, policy and legal.

2019 Objectives

Deliver strategic technology improvements - better services to members, more efficient systems for us.

Recruit more stations, manufacturers and members.

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Project Office

Rosie Kendrick joins us as part-time Project Co-ordinator

Works in digital radio and has previously worked at Digital Radio UK

rosie.kendrick@radiodns.org

Project Logo

Solving an immediate problem

Project Logo

Specific requirement for more accurate radio station logos in the dashboard

Easy to explain to broadcasters and manufacturers

Easy to implement

Project Logo

WorldDAB Automotive User Experience Group recommends using DAB and/or RadioDNS to acquire station logos and other metadata

Have met (alongside WorldDAB) most European automotive manufacturers

Conducting a joint survey (with WDAB) of manufacturer and broadcaster intentions

Project Logo

https://radiodns.org/get-involved/project-logo/

Standard Terms of Use

Clarity for broadcasters and manufacturers

Principles

Licence enforces technical compliance and implementation compliance

Broadcasters provide metadata for free

Manufacturers must use it correctly

Licence agreement is implicit by use

Broadcasters must include a link to the terms in their SI file

Can be used with or without the Client ID functionality to protect the metadata to organisations who have agreed to the Terms of Use

Process

We have created a standard Terms of Use of Broadcaster Metadata

Today we are

• Publishing the Terms of Use as a draft
• Starting a two month consultation period

Summary

Radio Broadcasters must:

• provide accurate Metadata, in the correct technical standards.
• ensure that they have the rights to allow the Manufacturer to use the Metadata.

Manufacturers must not:

• change or add to the Metadata.
• use the Metadata after the expiry time that the Broadcaster gives them
• charge specifically for the Metadata, but can offer it as part of a bundle of “Connected Services”.

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Consultation

Get the consultation document

https://radiodns.org/get-involved/project-logo/

Have it reviewed by business and by legal

Information on how to respond is in the document

Respond by 12th April 2019

Technology Projects

Improving Our Tools

Compliance Testing

Operational now:

Technology testing (Core, Visuals, EPG)

In 2019:

Service testing - testing broadcaster services

Fault reporting - for manufacturers

Fault Reporting

Consistent feedback from manufacturers that reporting faults/inconsistencies is difficult.

Potential for a joint project with WorldDAB to allow diagnosis and reporting of faults directly to broadcasters / network operators.

DNS Registration

Create a “self-management” portal for broadcasters

Allow faster registration through providing SI files

Validation of data prior to registration

Enables scaling of DNS servers as required

Potential to enable DNSSEC (DNS validation)

Education

Education

Continuing work with WorldDAB on User Experience Guidelines and Meetings

Re-organise Website

Key industry events

Website

Re-structure the website to make it easier to find implementation information

“Task-centric” navigation

Add new guided HOWTO’s to the site, worked examples:�Example: https://radiodns.org/get-involved/project-logo/walkthrough-finding-radio-station-logos/

2019 Tour

Membership

Growing in 2019

Membership

We are entirely funded by our members

Currently (2019) �28 Members

Target (start 2020)�30 Members

Unique Member Benefits

Priority support

Technical Group participation

Testing tools

Fault reporting

Certification and trademark licensing

Member events

Staying Open

Technical standards

Basic support and debug tools

Online support documentation

Minutes of meetings

Code under recognised open source licences

Market data about the rollout of RadioDNS services

Budget 2019

Funding our Plans

Budget 2019

No change in membership fee in 2019

Unchanged for 3 years

Increase our spend on human resource

Project Co-ordinator

Technical Project Manager / Developer

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Budget 2019

2019 Budget v 2018 Actual

Discussion

2019 Plans

Any Other Business

Discussion

Close of the Thirteenth General Assembly

Drinks and Networking