Re: [MMUSIC] WGLC for draft-ietf-mmusic-data-channel-sdpneg

[Juergen Stoetzer-Bradler <[e-mail]>]

Hello Christian,

Thank you for your feedback. Ok, I think then it might be helpful to add a related sentence or two 
to the IANA registration section of the sdpneg draft.

Thanks,
Juergen


On 16.02.2016 00:41, EXT Christian Groves wrote:
> Hello Juergen,
>
> Your proposal seems reasonable to me.
>
> With regards to the IANA registry for websockets I think it should be possible to add two 
> references to the row for MSRP. It's only editing a table.
>
> Regards, Christian
>
> On 14/02/2016 9:48 PM, Juergen Stoetzer-Bradler wrote:
>> Flemming,
>>
>> Regarding
>>> It would probably simplify the overall SDP negotiation part, but I don't know if it would 
>>> constrain the way data channels were envisioned to be used. 
>>
>> On Friday Paul mentioned in his email two potential use cases, where no subprotocol identifiers 
>> might be added to a data channel's dcmap attribute. In my last email I hadn't thought of such 
>> cases. If we don't want to exclude such cases, then requiring the subprotocol ids always to be 
>> present might indeed be too restrictive.
>>
>> Regarding
>>> Ok. Going back to discussion between Paul and I, do you believe that in for an attribute to be 
>>> encapsulated in dcsa, the attribute MUST have been explicitly define to support this (Paul's 
>>> suggestion below) or do you believe that this is overly constraining, and if so, how shoud we 
>>> relax it ? 
>>
>> I now think that the sdpneg draft might recommend SDP offerers and answerers to always add a 
>> subprotocol identifier to a data channel's dcmap attribute if dcsa embedded attributes are also 
>> negotiated for the data channel's subprotocol. I also think we could explicitly add text to 
>> sdpneg saying that subprotocol identifiers should be added to the IANA Websocket (and in future 
>> combined data channel) registry. And that this registration should be done via a document, which 
>> then explicitly describes the usages and semantics of dcsa embedded subprotocol attributes, _if_ 
>> those usages or semantics deviate from cases, where these attributes are not dcsa encapsulated. I 
>> think that in those cases, where the usage and meaning of an attribute (always related to the 
>> data channel's subprotocol) does not deviate from the non-dcsa encapsulated use cases, such an 
>> attribute may not explicitly need to be described for data channel usage. But I think it might be 
>> helpful to explicitly say so in the sdpneg draft.
>
>>
>> Somebody inspecting an SDP offer or answer, which was generated by an implementation following 
>> these two recommendations (and which hence contains an IANA registered subprotocol id if it 
>> contains any dcsa embedded attributes), could then refer to that IANA table, would then find the 
>> reference to the document, which defines this subprotocol id for data channel usage, and there 
>> could check if any of the dcsa embedded attributes has a data channel specific semantic. If yes, 
>> that specific semantic would be described in that document. If such a specific semantic were not 
>> described in that document, then the default usage and semantic of the attribute would apply also 
>> to that data channel transport case.
>>
>> But in that context I'd have an IANA table related question.
>> A certain subprotocol might be defined for Websocket usage as well as for data channel usage. 
>> MSRP is already such a case, where draft-ietf-mmusic-msrp-usage-data-channel defines how to use 
>> MSRP over data channels, and where draft-pd-dispatch-msrp-websocket defines how to use MSRP over 
>> Websockets.
>> Would the IANA WebSocket Subprotocol Name Registry on 
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/websocket/websocket.xml then contain two MSRP related rows? Or 
>> just one row containing references to both the Websocket and data channel documents?
>> Should we add related text to the IANA registration section of the sdpneg draft?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Juergen
>>
>>
>> On 12.02.2016 15:52, EXT Flemming Andreasen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 2/12/16 5:45 AM, Juergen Stoetzer-Bradler wrote:
>>>> Flemming, Paul,
>>>>
>>>> The current a=dcmap related text in draft-ietf-mmusic-data-channel-sdpneg doesn't require that 
>>>> the 'subprotocol' parameter must always be present - rather it is specified as an optional 
>>>> parameter. Thus, current sdpneg text would allow to create an SDP offer for a data channel, 
>>>> which contains one a=dcmap attribute and potentially multiple a=dcsa attributes without the 
>>>> subprotocol actually being given. Based on this discussion I am wondering if the subprotocol 
>>>> parameter should actually be mandatory.
>>>>
>>> It would probably simplify the overall SDP negotiation part, but I don't know if it would 
>>> constrain the way data channels were envisioned to be used.
>>>
>>>
>>>> In the specific case of MSRP, the msrp-usage-data-channel draft says in 5.1.1.1 that the dcmap 
>>>> attribute includes the label and subprotocol parameters. The current text could possible be 
>>>> made more explicit by saying that the 'subprotocol="MSRP"' parameter must always be present.
>>>> Have just submitted version 04 of the msrp-usage-data-channel draft, which proposes to add 
>>>> subprotocol identifier "MSRP" to the WebSocket Subprotocol Name registry. This registry would 
>>>> then associate subprotocol id "MSRP" with the msrp-usage-data-channel document.
>>>> There, in section 5.1.1.2 the MSRP specific usages of the a=dcsa attribute are specified. And 
>>>> there the MSRP specific SDP attributes, which can be dcsa embedded, are described.
>>>> 'setup' is an attribute, whose semantic changes when being dcsa embedded and associated with 
>>>> subprotocol MSRP, as compared to the meaning of an "a=setup" media level attribute of a 
>>>> TCP/MSRP m-line. Hence these semantical differences are explicitly addressed in the 
>>>> msrp-usage-data-channel draft.
>>>>
>>>> Regarding sdpneg, I also think that the current text in sdpneg seems to be sufficient regarding 
>>>> the usage of dcsa encapsulated SDP attributes as being bound to the data channel's subprotocol. 
>>>> But as the semantic of a dcsa encapsulated attribute may be subprotocol specific (like 
>>>> 'setup'), I'd now tend to consider the subprotocol parameter in the dcmap attribute as being 
>>>> mandatory, as mentioned above. As already discussed, the Websocket subprotocol registry would 
>>>> then refer to the document, which specifies the subprotocol specific usage of dcsa encapsulated 
>>>> parameters.
>>>>
>>> Ok. Going back to discussion between Paul and I, do you believe that in for an attribute to be 
>>> encapsulated in dcsa, the attribute MUST have been explicitly define to support this (Paul's 
>>> suggestion below) or do you believe that this is overly constraining, and if so, how shoud we 
>>> relax it ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> -- Flemming
>>>
>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Juergen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 11.02.2016 21:52, Flemming Andreasen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 2/8/16 12:09 PM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
>>>>>> On 2/8/16 11:09 AM, Flemming Andreasen wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 2/6/16 1:44 PM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 2/4/16 10:43 PM, Christian Groves wrote:
>>>>>>>>> Isn't this the approach we're taking today?
>>>>>>>>> draft-ietf-mmusic-data-channel-sdpneg has general text and specific
>>>>>>>>> drafts are used to describe protocols that use the mechanism (i.e.
>>>>>>>>> draft-ietf-mmusic-msrp-usage-data-channel &
>>>>>>>>> draft-ietf-clue-datachannel).
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It remains to be seen if that will be enough. E.g., there currently
>>>>>>>> aren't any iana considerations in
>>>>>>>> draft-ietf-mmusic-msrp-usage-data-channel.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Suppose I encounter some sdp that uses msrp over a data channel, but
>>>>>>>> that usage is unknown to me. How do I find the spec (the reference to
>>>>>>>> draft-ietf-mmusic-msrp-usage-data-channel) that defines that usage?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I would like to think that the iana registries will allow me to trace
>>>>>>>> back to the relevant specs.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> No disagreement on that part, however having taken another look at both
>>>>>>> sdpneg and the msrp-usage documents, I still don't agree with your
>>>>>>> original request for all (existing and new) attributes to specify how
>>>>>>> they may or may not be used with the dcsa attribute defined by sdpneg.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> As Christian noted, the sub-protocol specifics are defined in individual
>>>>>>> documents (like msrp-usage), which calls your the parameters that are at
>>>>>>> least needed to be supported for that usage. Taking MSRP as an example,
>>>>>>> why isn't that enough, and how do you see the resulting set of
>>>>>>> attributes that may or may not be used with MSRP differ between use in a
>>>>>>> data-channel (and hence encapsulated in dcsa) or as a regular media
>>>>>>> stream ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Based on this discussion, I conclude that it should be sufficient for this draft to say that 
>>>>>> before an attribute can be used with dcsa, such usage must be defined somewhere. This could 
>>>>>> be either:
>>>>>> - as part of the definition of the attribute, OR
>>>>>> - as part of the definition of the protocol referenced on the m-line.
>>>>>>
>>>>> We are getting closer, but it's still not obvious to me that you cannot use an attribute with 
>>>>> dcsa if it has not been explicitly defined for the attribute in question. Clearly, there are 
>>>>> attributes that wouldn't make sense over data channels, just like there are attributes that 
>>>>> don't make sense over particular media descriptions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Again, I'd like to hear from more people on this, including the authors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Flemming
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>>>     Paul
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Also, it would be good to hear from more people on this, including the
>>>>>>> document authors.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- Flemming
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>>>>>     Paul
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Regards, Christian
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 4/02/2016 3:58 PM, Paul Kyzivat wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> On 2/3/16 5:42 PM, Flemming Andreasen wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I'm not concerned about the IANA part. I agree that *if* we need to
>>>>>>>>>>> expliclty specify attribute interactions for "dcsa", then it should be
>>>>>>>>>>> part of the IANA registry. What I am not agreeing with at this
>>>>>>>>>>> point is
>>>>>>>>>>> that there is indeed a need to explicitly speficy these
>>>>>>>>>>> interactions as
>>>>>>>>>>> opposed to relying on a more general algorithmic approach (plus the
>>>>>>>>>>> offerer being responsible for generating a valid offer if he wants to
>>>>>>>>>>> establish a data channel).
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Well, an obvious one is that the protocol(s) the attribute pertains to
>>>>>>>>>> need to be defined to work over data channels.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>     Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>>     Paul
>>>>>>>>>>
>>
>>
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