Re: [Dart] draft-ietf-dart-dscp-rtp-02 - Section 4 data channel text

[Harald Alvestrand <[e-mail]>]

On 08/26/2014 04:38 PM, Ben Campbell wrote:
> On Aug 26, 2014, at 1:07 AM, Black, David <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>>>>>> -- section 4:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> It might be nice to have a more WebRTC-ish example. For example an audio
>>>>>> stream, video stream, and a data channel carrying something like a shared
>>>>>> white board or game.
>>>>> Sure, please send text.
>>>>>
>>>> Okay, how about something like the following, added to the end of section 4:
>>>>
>>>> "A WebRTC application may carry one or more RTP streams, as discussed above.
>>> In addition, it might carry an SCTP data channel. The treatment of the data
>>> channel would depend on the nature of the application. For example, messaging
>>> applications, shared white board, or guided browsing applications might be
>>> best effort, while a latency-sensitive game application might require a higher
>>> priority PHB."
>>>
>>> I would prefer to say "A WebRTC application may use...." - an
>>> application is something that lives in a browser at one end of a
>>> connection, talking to something at the other end of the connection
>>> (might be an instance of the same application, might be something
>>> completely different).
>>>
>>> I would also prefer "might desire" to "might require" - games are
>>> unlikely to refuse to operate if they don't get a higher priority PHB,
>>> they'll just work with degraded performance. That's nits.
>> Done, plus some more editing, here's the result in my working draft:
>>
>>   A WebRTC application may use one or more RTP streams, as discussed
>>   above.  In addition, it may include an SCTP-based data channel
>>   [I-D.ietf-rtcweb-data-channel] whose QoS treatment depends on the
>>   nature of the application.  For example, best effort treatment of
>>   data channels is likely to suffice for messaging, shared white board,
>>   and guided browsing applications, whereas latency-sensitive games
>>   might desire better QoS for their data channels.
>>
> WFM.

Works for me too.
If I was nitpicking, I would change "it may include" to "it may use" in
sentence 2 too, but I can live with this just fine.

>


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