1. There are several typographical errors in the text, some of which are pointed out in the comments by clauses below. A pass through with a word processor spell check should be done as soon as possible to pick up any that the reviewers miss.

2. A paragraph describing the contents of the Annexes A - F should be added someplace early on in the text. Where this should be located is a decision left to the editors.

3. Once the final draft of the MHEG-5 COR1 has been sent for publication this text should be checked against it to ensure consistency between the clarifications made in the COR and the test case procedures and results expected. They may be especially true for the ListGroup class and StreamEvents.

4. Some Acronyms, like UIT, TBA, and N/A should be expanded in a note on the page where they first appear.

5. Copyright ownership with regard to the UK DTT specification is mentioned but it is not clear what are the implication of this for users, or what exact part of the Domain Definition this applies to.

6. For Davic the version, 1.3, is clearly stated, but what is the case for the UK DTT, the NHK, and the JISC specification. How will newer versions of these Specification as they appear affect the MHEG-7 maintenance procedures, or even the progress of the standard to the IS level.

7. The number of test cases will have to be expanded, even in this version if the Standard is to be really useful for implementers.

3.1 last sentence

Change monomedia to: media

4. line 11

Change guaranteed to be stable to : stable (can we really determine when a DD is guaranteed to be stable )

5. 4th paragraph

Change that we cannot use to: it is not feasible to use
Change As an alternative we can define and develop to: Alternatively the

5. 5th paragraph 2nd bullet

Change on the other which to: that

5. last paragraph

remove workable

6.

7. Note 2

The reference is missing from the end of the sentence

8.1 1st paragraph

The reference source did not print out.

2nd paragraph 3rd bullet

Change behaviours the to: behaviours according to the

8.2.1 4th paragraph

The reference source did not print out

5th paragraph

Change status notation is as follows to: status notation of the MHEG-5 requirements column is as follows

Table 1 heading in column 5
Expand the IUT acronym in a note to table.

6th paragraph

There is a need to explain what are the values or notation that will be found in the Application Domain column of the PICS feature list.

Note that the template in Table 1 is not consistent with the PICS Table of Annex F, which does not contain the Application Domain Requirements column

8.3 2nd sentence

Change should to: shall

8.3.2 4th paragraph last sentence

Change may be should to: shall

8.4 1st sentence

Change utilises to: use

A.4 1st Sentence

Reference Source not printed out

A.6 1st sentence

Add: the following table, to the end of this sentence.

A.7 1st sentence

Missing table reference at end of sentence

Table A.4 row 9

Change >129 to: >128

Note this table is duplicated in the hard copy of the standard.

A.10 Table A.5 row 14

Change support to: supports

Note: this table and Table A.6 are also duplicated in my hard copy

Annex B

TBD and perhaps other acronyms should be expanded here.

F.1 1st Paragraph last sentence

Change DAVIC13 to: DAVIC1.3

2nd paragraph 1st sentence

Change the status to: the MHEG-5 Requirement status

2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th bullets

The status notation references I, O, C, and X are missing

G.1 last entry in last row

Change sLink to: Link

Note: acronym RTE should be expanded here

G.3 6th row Description

After from 0% to 100% the sentence need to be fixed. Perhaps it should read as a new sentence: 100%. The transparent bitmap is alternated with updates to the banner text object at the top.

G.7 10th row External events

Add KEY2 to the list of events

G.8 10th row External events

Same comment as in G.7 above

G.9 9th row enterTest observe

Change blue ground to: blue background

G.11 9th row main observe 10 & 2)

Change Hotspot brinks to: Hotspot blinks

G.12 7th row Description penultimate sentence

Change diffrent to: different

G.14 5th row Purpose

Change object. To: objects.

G.15, G.16, G17, & G.20 5th row Purpose

Change objectes to objects

Note: a search and replace on this word should be done on the complete document.

G.20 8th row control observe

Change disageared to: disappeared (in two places)

G.28 6th row Description

Change runned to: run

9th row External events

remove Prev from the list of events

A.2

It is not clear what is the intent of this clause. Is it simply saying that the ASN.1 BER or the DER can be used as the interchange format. As it is written it is confusing and leads one to believe both shall be used at the same time

D.2 Same comment applies as in A.2 above

G.5 Row 6 Description

Description ends abruptly with comment that This test requires improvement. Obvoiusly more work needs to be done on this test and description

G.19 Row 6 Description

Description refers to "there should not be much time delay". This is a subjective indefinite criterion. Perhaps we need to clarify what is meant by "much time delay". Maybe the terms user unacceptable time delay are better.