Re: [Gen-art] Genart telechat review of draft-ietf-payload-rtp-ttml-03

[James Sandford <[e-mail]>]

Hello,
Thank you for the further feedback. 

In an earlier draft we had the second paragraph of section 7.1 elsewhere in the document. I believe it was in section 4.2.1.2 which discusses, amongst other things, how the TTML document timing relates to the RTP timestamps. We concluded that the document was easier to understand when all of the information related to clock rate was in the one section. If this goes against convention, I'm happy to move the second paragraph to another part of the document. But from the position of making the document easy to understand, leaving the information in one place might be best.

With regards to <CODE BEGINS> <CODE ENDS>, I understand that these are defined in the TLP for the purpose of identifying Code Components that aren't already one of the types listed in the accompanying Code Components document and that the Code Components document includes XML. I also see in this thread that the CODE BEGINS notation is seen as optional https://www.rfc-editor.org/pipermail/rfc-interest/2016-December/009782.html . I would prefer to not use the CODE BEGINS notation as, at a glance, it looks quite similar to XML itself and may be confusing. Furthermore, the understanding of the meaning of the CODE BEGINS notation requires the reader to read the TLP which already clearly specifies that XML is considered a Code Component. I believe that, in this case, CODE BEGINS is redundant and would make the document more confusing rather than less. 

Regards,
James

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Reviewer: Russ Housley
Review result: Ready with Nits

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Document: draft-ietf-payload-rtp-ttml-03
Reviewer: Russ Housley
Review Date: 2019-10-11
IETF LC End Date: 2019-10-10
IESG Telechat date: 2019-10-17


Thank you for addressing my comments on the previous version of this
Internet-Draft.


Summary: Ready with Nits

Major Concerns:

None.


Minor Concerns:

None.


Nits:

My guess is that the second paragraph in Section 7.1 uses "should"
because it is asking implementors to think about these things when
selecting a clock rate.  I expected this section to be talking about
the payload format parameters, not implementation considerations.  I
am not sure, but this paragraph might be more impactful elsewhere.

In section 4.2.1.1 and 4.2.1.2.1.2, should the blocks of XML be
enclosed between '<CODE BEGINS>' and '<CODE ENDS>' lines to make it
very clear that the Simplified BSD License applies here?