Appeal for Opinions on Draft Partial Revision of Public Notice Prescribing Structure of and Transmission Procedures for Related Information, Transmission Procedures for PES Packet, Section Format, TS Packet, IP Packet and TLV Packet, Structure of Transmission Control Signals and Identifiers, and Structure of Emergency Information Descriptors

1.Outline

  The “Promoting the Distribution of Digital Contents” (6th Interim Report of July 10, 2009) in the “Role to be Played by the Government for State of Use and Utilization of Terrestrial Digital Broadcasting and its Dissemination” (Consultation No.8 of the Information and Communications Council of 2004) proposes the introduction of a “new system that does not restrict disclosure of technical standards” (hereinafter “new system”) to improve a means for assurance (enforcement) of the rules for copy control in digital broadcasting. The Subcommittee for Promoting Digital Content Trading, Information and Communications Policy Committee, Information and Communications Council has deliberated on its introduction.
  The “subject prescribing structure of and transmission procedures for related information, transmission procedures for PES packet, section format, TS packet, IP packet and TLV packet, structure of transmission control signals and identifiers, and structure of emergency information descriptors” (Public Notice of MIC No.299 of June 29, 2011) (hereinafter “Public Notice on Related Information”) will be partially revised to contribute to smooth introduction of the new system by allowing information used at the time when the new system is implemented to be transmitted.
 

2.Guidelines for appeal for opinions

  (1) Subject of appeal for opinions
  - Draft public notice for partial revision of the “subject prescribing structure of and transmission procedures for related information, transmission procedures for PES packet, section format, TS packet, IP packet and TLV packet, structure of transmission control signals and identifiers, and structure of emergency information descriptors” (Public Notice of MIC No.299 of June 29, 2011)
  (2) Deadline for appeal for opinions
  July 18 (Wed), 2012
  The draft institutional improvement, etc. will be posted in the column of “press release” on the MIC website (http://www.soumu.go.jp) and the column of “public comments” on the e-government portal (e-Gov) (http://www.e-gov.go.jp) and also distributed at the following contact.
 

Related reports and records

  - “Promoting the Distribution of Digital Contents” (6th interim report) in “Role to be Played by the Government for State and Dissemination of Use and Utilization of Terrestrial Digital Broadcasting” (Inquiry No.8 of the Information and Communications Council of 2004) (July 10, 2009)