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

[Paul Kyzivat <[e-mail]>]

One comment, on section 9.1:

    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.

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.

The protocols we have been thinking of either don't work over stream 
oriented protocols, or else define a way to packetize.

This could get complex. The simple thing to do is to specify that 
stream-oriented transports are out of scope for this document.

	Thanks,
	Paul