abstract:AS3 (Applicability Statement 3), RFC 4823, is a standard by which vendor applications communicate over the Internet using File Transfer Protocol (FTP). It is an EDI protocol.
The reason for this is that we are upgrading the code in the embedded media player on News and Sport from ActionScript 2 (AS2) to ActionScript 3 (AS3).
We hope you can please bear with us while we make these necessary changes and we assure you that information stored on your computer is simply to allow the current transitional embedded media player to work before we release a full AS3 player in early February.