Re: [MMUSIC] AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc4566bis-32

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> Tue, 12 March 2019 15:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [MMUSIC] AD Evaluation of draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc4566bis-32
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On 3/12/19 7:08 AM, Colin Perkins wrote:

>>>>>> This is a normative requirement of RTP, however. If we want to avoid normative examples, which I’d agree makes sense, then this needs to be rewritten as just “An RTP-based system in recvonly mode SHOULD…”.
>>>>>
>>>>> That is the way it was. The change from "SHOULD" to "should" was to make it non-normative.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or were you requesting to remove “e.g."?
>>>> Remove the “e.g.”, yes, but also change “should” back to “SHOULD”.
>>>
>>> I thought the point was that the RTP specs are normative and this is only an example, and so shouldn't be normative.
>>
>> I do not have the text in front of me, but I agree that examples should not be stated normatively.
> 
> This is documenting a perhaps unexpected interaction between SDP and RTP. That is, when set to recvonly in SDP, an RTP endpoint SHOULD send RTCP. I do think that it’s important that we spell this out clearly here, with normative language.

I'm neutral here whether its normative or not. If it is to be a 
normative SHOULD, can we please include some "unless" text indicating 
the conditions when it may be omitted? Better yet, turn it into an "if 
NOT x then MUST ..." form.

	Thanks,
	Paul