Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere        
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation            
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Conventions             
 6     Overview   
 7     Data communications           
        7.1     Concerning data communications (informative)             
        7.2     Data communications requirements for this API (normative)   
        7.3     Conveyance quality of service considerations (informative)     
        7.4     Unidirectional system considerations (informative)     
        7.5     Proxy devices (normative)       
 8     Message formats   
        8.1     Terminology (informative)       
        8.2     Message structures (normative)           
        8.3     Operation types (normative)  
        8.4     Conventions and requirements             
 9     Automation system to injector communication        
        9.1     Initialization    
        9.2     Alive ("Heartbeat") communications   
        9.3     Splice requests             
        9.4     Encryption support (normative)            
        9.5     Component mode support      
        9.6     Response messages   
        9.7     ITU-T J.181 splice_schedule() support requests             
        9.8     Miscellaneous requests            
10     PAMS to the automation system communications 
       10.1     System design philosophy      
       10.2     PAMS functionality    
       10.3     Service continuity       
       10.4     System initialization messages              
       10.5     Injector service notification   
       10.6     Failure notification messages (device or communications)       
       10.7     PAMS to AS permanent "link alive" messages
       10.8     PAMS to AS common elements           
11     PAMS to injector communications (informative)     
       11.1     The PAMS implementation    
       11.2     Injector provisioning 
       11.3     PAMS structure           
       11.4     Support of multiple DPI PIDs 
12     Common elements              
       12.1     Values of splice_event_id used in this interface           
       12.2     Values of unique_program_id used in this interface   
       12.3     Minimum pre-roll time supported by this interface     
       12.4     time() definition         
       12.5     timestamp() definition             
13     System architecture and provisioning (informative)              
       13.1     One-way protocol – automation system to injector    
       13.2     Two-way protocol – automation system to injector only          
       13.3     Two-way protocol – automation system to injector with PAMS             
14     Result codes (normative)  
Annex A – TCP/IP conveyance    
Annex B – ANSI/TIA/EIA-232-F conveyance    
        B.1     The basic link layer syntax        
        B.2     The escape sequence
Annex C – Digital video system conveyance    
Annex D – Analogue video system conveyance    
Bibliography