[MMUSIC] Re: draft-rajeshkumar-mmusic-gpmd-03.txt

[Tom Taylor <[e-mail]>]

Thanks for the update.  I did see Ned Freed's remarks on the IESG I-D tracker, but 
wasn't sure if they were the cause of the remit to the authors.

I know we've been there before, but one quick fix would be to add a parameter to 
the PCMU and PCMA MIME types to indicate voice-band data.

Flemming Andreasen wrote:

> At the risk of misrepresenting the IESG, let me offer my interpretation
> of the comments we got from the IESG:
> 
> 1. Concerns about the mechanism itself inasmuch as it may be (mis)used
> to essentially redefine the meaning of an otherwise well-defined MIME
> type. You may also have general "bucket" MIME types, the meaning of
> which depend on parameters provided by something like gpmd. There are
> some concerns with what that means for interoperability.
> 2. Overlap with existing media feature tagging mechanims defined in RFCs
> 2533, 2534, 2912, 2938, and 2987
> 
> The authors have yet to figure out if and how those issues should be
> resolved. One option is simply to kill the draft and just fallback to
> the specifc vbd-definition already provided in ITU-T Recommendation
> V.150.1. The intent with the draft of course was precisely not to do
> that, but considering that the vbd-definition is really all we were
> after, this may be getting into being a bit of an overkill. The only
> "real" issue that would leave us with is getting the parameter
> registered, and although Standards Track RFCs are preferred for that,
> sdp-new does permit attributes to be registered per the "Specification
> Required" policy; for at least the vbd-specific usage of gpmd, I believe
> we would be close enough to pass that bar.
> 
> -- Flemming
> 
> 
> Tom Taylor wrote:
> 
> 
>>The IESG ID tracker shows that the IESG requested changes to
>>draft-rajeshkumar-mmusic-gpmd-03.txt.  What was the nature of those
>>changes, and where does the process stand?
> 
> 
> 


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