[MMUSIC] Offer/Answer sections in SDP drafts

[Flemming Andreasen <[e-mail]>]

Greetings

One of the things we have tried to emphasize for SDP related drafts is 
the need to have well-defined offer/answer procedures, and as part of 
that, we have been asking people to follow the structure of RFC 3264. 
This means there needs to be the following O/A sections in SDP related 
drafts (in the order shown):

     1. Generating the Initial Offer
     2. Generating the Answer
     3. Offerer Processing of the Answer
     4. Modifying the Session

As part of the bundle-11 draft review, a (general) question came up 
around what actually goes in the "Generating the Answer" section. More 
specifically, should this section
     a) Apply to the initial offer only

     b) Apply to the initial offer and subsequent offers for the parts 
that apply in a general manner to both [parts that apply to subsequent 
offers only would be covered by "Modifying the Session"]

     c) Apply to all offers.

I believe the answer is b), however some feel the answer is c). One of 
the issues I see with that is that you potentially end up depending on 
text/rules from "Modifying the Session", however those procedures have 
not been defined at that point in the document. This can of course be 
solved with forward referencing (as is done in bundle-11), however it 
makes it harder to follow IMO and I also do not believe this is what RFC 
3264 intended.

Comments on the above would be appreciated.

Thanks

-- Flemming