Re: [AVTCORE] draft-ietf-avtcore-multi-party-rtt-mix-00 Issue 1: transport

[Gunnar Hellström <[e-mail]>]

Dale, thanks for good comments,

Den 2020-05-12 kl. 04:14, skrev Dale R. Worley:
> Speaking to one aspect of one point:
>
> Gunnar Hellstrom <[e-mail]> writes:
>> That
>> means real-time transmission while text is created and accepting some
>> rare dropouts just as we do with voice and video. However, users are
>> nowadays used to text messaging where it is customary to accept a delay
>> and get the text complete in most cases, rather than to have loss. That
>> user experience might be expected from real-time text as well.
I see I did not express myself clearly. The introduction should have been:

That means real-time transmission while text is created and accepting 
some rare dropouts just as we do with voice and video. However, users 
are nowadays used to text messaging where it is customary to accept a_*n 
extra*_ delay_*in case of network errors *_and get the text complete in 
most cases, rather than to have loss. That user experience might be 
expected from real-time text as well.

>> I was attending IETF meetings around the time that "real-time text"
>> became an important project, and my understanding is that the
>> deaf/hard-of-hearing community is very insistent on the real-time nature
>> of it, as in seeing the pacing of how the sender is typing characters.
>> In particular, the SIP MESSAGE method, which resembles mobile phone text
>> messages, was considered quite inadequate.
>>
>> The possibility of lost packets was compensated for by the RTP
>> redundancy mechanism.
>>
>> Poking around, I find https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_text,
>> which points to the Real Time Text Task Force
>> http://www.realtimetext.org/, which has an FAQ
>> http://www.realtimetext.org/FAQ containing
>>
>>      Why is Real-Time Text important to people who are deaf or hard of
>>      hearing?
>>
>>      In addition to its many applications for fully hearing people, Real-Time
>>      Text is important as an equivalent alternative to voice communications
>>      for people who are deaf and hard of hearing. It allows a more natural,
>>      bi-directional flow of text based conversation to take place compared
>>      with the "type-enter-wait-read-response-reply" technology of IM(chat)
>>      and SMS.
>>
>>      In fact: when Real-Time Text is fully mainstream, it will be solving one
>>      of the biggest accessibility problems of Internet communications for
>>      people who are deaf or hard of hearing!
Yes, and it is sad that real-time text has not yet become the way we 
normally communicate in text. If the big text chat services would send 
text while it is created, we would not sit waiting for next complete 
message, but could follow the thoughts of the other party as they are 
expressed in words and be ready to respond sooner. That would save 
stress and time.
>>
>> While searching for that, I found that Verizon has a big page on how to
>> activate RTT on various phone models
>> https://www.verizon.com/about/accessibility/real-time-text
Yes, you can also find similar information from other operators and 
manufacturers. But usually in the Accessibility area.

>>
>> Dale

Thanks,

Gunnar

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