The present document has been created as part of the MEPRO work item to identify relevant profiles for the MBMS user services, study the feasibility of MBMS as a transport enabler, and identify relevant APIs that can offered to applications to enable usage of MBMS user services.

The present document identifies a set of profiles for based on the most relevant use cases for the usage of MBMS. It also studies the feasibility of using MBMS as a regular transport enabler through the definition of an MBMS URL scheme and the procedures to resolve such URL schemes. In addition, it identifies a set of APIs for controlling MBMS user service reception and retrieving resources that are delivered over MBMS. Finally, the present document also addresses the issue of defining QoE reporting for DASH over MBMS.

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