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" Sky has called into question the BBC Trust&amp;#039;s ability to understand and regulate Project Canvas, the new on demand IPTV standard being developed by the BBC, BT and ITV. In a response to the BBC Trust&amp;#039;s consultation on the project, Sky said that BBC management has failed to make its proposals for Canvas &amp;quot;sufficiently clear in fundamental respects&amp;quot;, and that the BBC Trust&amp;#039;s assessment was being conducted before the proposals &amp;quot;are properly defined&amp;quot;. Describing the initial consultation as &amp;quot;short&amp;quot; and the second two-week phase as &amp;quot;wholly inadequate&amp;quot;, Sky warned that the Trust must &amp;quot;demonstrate that it is considering [Canvas] in a suitably rigorous and entirely impartial manner&amp;quot; and that its action to date &amp;quot;calls into question the Trust&amp;#039;s independence and the scrutiny to which [Canvas] will be put&amp;quot;. On Canvas itself, Sky cautioned that BBC management &amp;quot;has not adequately demonstrated that there is unsatisfied consumer demand&amp;quot; that would be solved by the creation of Canvas, and added that in its view, &amp;quot;the BBC&amp;#039;s primary purpose and obligations could be discharged more efficiently and proportionately through a genuinely broad policy of on demand content syndication across third party platforms and services&amp;quot;. Sky expressed concern that the BBC may use public funds to act as &amp;quot;a market maker&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;significantly distort competition leading to an overall worse outcome for consumers&amp;quot;. It cited plans to create standards for electronic programme guides, user interface, and editorial oversight, as evidence that Canvas would itself act as a new platform rather than being a set of technologies upon which a variety of IPTV services would run. &amp;quot;There are aspects of the proposals that far exceed participation in industry development of technical standards,&amp;quot; Sky&amp;#039;s submission said, &amp;quot;which give rise to the potential for significant distortion of existing and emerging competition.&amp;quot; It therefore called for a far more detailed analysis by the Trust lest it reach &amp;quot;an unreasonable and invalid decision based on a set of inchoate proposals whose impact has not been properly gauged&amp;quot;. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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