Re: [AVTCORE] Call for consensus on multiplexing multipe media streams.

[Colin Perkins <[e-mail]>]

On 14 Nov 2011, at 16:56, Roni even wrote:
> At the AVTcore session we had two presentations. One from Magnus proposing the multiplexing of multiple RTP sessions over a single transport flow and the second from Jonathan Lennox proposing multiplexing multiple media types in a single RTP session.
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> Magnus asked in the beginning of his presentation if the WG believe that the problem of providing multiple RTP sessions over a single transport flow should be solved. The response from the room was that it was already discussed in IETF 81 and there was interest in doing this work.
> In IETF81 there was an interest in doing both options. During the session today we did not have time to ask for consensus.
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> So the WG chairs are asking which direction to take
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> The options we have are:
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> 1. Go forward with both solutions.
> 2. Only define multiplexing of multiple RTP sessions in a single transport flow.
> 3. Only define multiplexing of multiple media types in a single RTP session.
> 4. Not enough information in order to decide, more discussion is needed.

I support option (2), and think option (3) is problematic for the reasons described in draft-perkins-rtcweb-rtp-usage-02. 

I can live with option (1), provided the limitations of both approaches are clearly specified. 

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Colin Perkins
http://csperkins.org/