[AVTCORE] RTP Topologies and Taxonomy

[Magnus Westerlund <[e-mail]>]

AVTEXT and AVTCORE
(Please respond to AVTEXT only)

In yesterdays WG session in AVTEXT it was brought up a question
regarding Section 4 of draft-ietf-avtext-rtp-grouping-taxonomy-00. This
was the question if this belongs in this draft or should be part of the
RTP Topologies.

My understanding it was put into the taxonomy draft to provide some
examples of how the entities definitions actually relate in some cases.
However, they can also be seen to duplicate quite a lot of the RTP
topologies drafts. And that draft needs an update that uses the
taxonomy, as editor I have that on my todo list. Thus we get to the
question of what should be done in the taxonomy document.

I think there are three alternatives here:

1. Remove all the topologies related discussion and at most make an
explicit reference to topologies as showing how taxonomy can be used to
describe the RTP Topologies.

2. Select a very small number (1 or 2) enlightening examples just to
show what can be done.

3. Include all the main topologies and focus on the bigger picture and
point to how RTP and signalling relate using communication and
multi-media sessions etc.

I personally are not certain between alternative 1 and 2. RTP Topologies
do have some signaling discussion, but may get more to function as good
examples for the entities concepts. Thus, I might lean slightly more
towards 2, with the purpose of focusing on how the communication and
multi-media session interacts with participants, end points and RTP
sessions.

Please provide your opinion or if you think there are additional
alternatives?

Cheers

Magnus Westerlund

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