Re: [MMUSIC] Draft new version: BUNDLE-21

Paul Kyzivat <pkyzivat@alum.mit.edu> Mon, 15 June 2015 18:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [MMUSIC] Draft new version: BUNDLE-21
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On 6/15/15 2:47 PM, Christer Holmberg wrote:
> Hi,
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>>> But, I hear what you are saying, so perhaps we instead should say "received data"?
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>> That would fix it here. But the usage is elsewhere, with the same concern.
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> The only other place where I can find "packets" being used is in relation to RTP/RTCP, and as far as I know we always talk about "RTP packets" and "RTCP packets", don't we?

It also is used at least in the prior (old) paragraph of this section. 
The change you propose would work throughout this section.

	Thanks,
	Paul

> Regards,
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> Christer
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mmusic [mailto:mmusic-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Paul Kyzivat
>> Sent: 15 June 2015 20:14
>> To: mmusic@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [MMUSIC] Draft new version: BUNDLE-21
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>> One comment, on section 9.1:
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>>       This document describes a mechanism to identify the protocol of a
>>       received packet among the STUN, DTLS and SRTP protocols (in any
>>       combination), when UDP is used as transport-layer protocol, but does
>>       not describe how to identify different protocols transported on DTLS.
>>       While the mechanism is generally applicable to other protocols and
>>       transport-layers protocols, any such use requires further
>>       specification around how to multiplex multiple protocols on a given
>>       transport-layer protocols, and how to associate received packets with
>>       the correct protocols.
>>
>> ISTM that something is still missing from this section. It *assumes* that the transport protocol packages things into packets, and that each such packet can be associated with one of the application protocols sharing it.
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>> Consider TCP: while it uses packets on the network, it is a stream oriented transport. Upper layers built for TCP may not have any notion of packets. It is probably infeasible to multiplex m-lines for such protocols using BUNDLE.
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>> The protocols we have been thinking of either don't work over stream oriented protocols, or else define a way to packetize.
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>> This could get complex. The simple thing to do is to specify that stream-oriented transports are out of scope for this document.
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>> 	Thanks,
>> 	Paul
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