Re: [Gen-art] [Gen-Art] LC Review: draft-ietf-tsvwg-emergency-rsvp-07.txt

Hi Joel,

>
>>>>
>>>> Minor Comments:
>>>> 	My personal opinion is that using "call" to describe the  
>>>> sessions being established is probably not the best choice.  In  
>>>> many contexts which will need to reference this document, call  
>>>> has a much more specific meaning.  It is not clear why "session"  
>>>> is not sufficient.  (But I presume that the particular  
>>>> terminology is the result of significant consideration, and  
>>>> therefore my personal reaction is not a reason to hold up this  
>>>> document.)
>>>
>>> The rationale was that people were often more familiar with the  
>>> concept of "emergency" being associated to phone calls than to  
>>> multimedia sessions. So it helped initially to use the term  
>>> "call". We included a clarification note explaining that "call"  
>>> actually means "session".
>>> "Note: Below, this document references several examples of IP
>>>   telephony and its use of "calls", which is one form of the term
>>>   "sessions" (Video over IP and Instant Messaging being other  
>>> examples
>>>   that rely on session establishment).  For the sake of  
>>> simplicity, we
>>>   shall use the widely known term "call" for the remainder of this
>>>   document.
>>> "
>>> Now that the document has matured enough, I would be happy to  
>>> revert to a more generic "session" terminology. let's hear my co- 
>>> authors on this.
>
> I'm fine with this.  and in going back to the more generic  
> "session", we may simply want to do a total inversion of text.   
> where we start with "session" and stay with it through the entire  
> document, but note in the Intro that a more specific instance of a  
> session could be in the form of a "call".
>>>

We have agreement among co-authors, so next version will address your  
comment and :
	- use "session" throughout
	- have a note saying that a "call" is a more specific instance of a  
session.

Thanks

Francois
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