Re: [Slim] IETF last call for draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language (Section 5.4)

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

At 11:01 AM +0100 2/14/17, Gunnar Hellström wrote:

>  My proposal for a reworded section 5.4 is:
>
>  5.4.  Unusual language indications
>
>  It is possible to specify an unusual indication where the language
>  specified may look unexpected for the media type.
>
>  For such cases the following guidance SHALL be 
> applied for the humintlang attributes used in 
> these situations.
>
>  1.	A view of a speaking person in the video 
> stream SHALL, when it has relevance for speech 
> perception, be indicated by a Language-Tag for 
> spoken/written language with the "Zxxx" script 
> subtag to indicate that the contents is not 
> written.

What does "relevance for speech perception" mean 
in the spec, and how is it determined?

>
>  2.	Text captions included in the video 
> stream SHALL be indicated by a Language-Tag for 
> spoken/written language.

Is this commonly supported such that it makes 
sense to include in the current draft?  Perhaps 
it should wait for an update that might include 
similar functionality such as text captions for 
audio streams.

>
>  3.	Any approximate representation of sign 
> language or fingerspelling in the text media 
> stream SHALL be indicated by a Language-Tag for 
> a sign language in text media.

Same comment as for (2).

>
>  4.	When sign language related audio from a 
> person using sign language is of importance for 
> language communication, this SHALL be indicated 
> by a Language-Tag for a sign language in audio 
> media.

Same comment as for (1).


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