Re: [payload] AD Evaluation: draft-ietf-avt-rtp-isac-04

Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> Thu, 13 June 2013 12:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [payload] AD Evaluation: draft-ietf-avt-rtp-isac-04
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On 05/28/2013 08:34 PM, Richard Barnes wrote:
> Dear Authors,
>
> Any update on these issues?

Working on it, but as you know from other discussions, there isn't 
exactly a lack of things to work on at the moment - it dropped off my 
queue, and I'm picking it up again now.

We'll get back to you Real Soon Now.

>
> Thanks,
> --Richard
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Roni Even <ron.even.tlv@gmail.com 
> <mailto:ron.even.tlv@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Richard,
>
>     These fields are not part of the RTP header but part of the iSAC
>     payload header and I agree that it will be better to clarify them.
>
>     Roni
>
>     *From:*Richard Barnes [mailto:rlb@ipv.sx <mailto:rlb@ipv.sx>]
>     *Sent:* 01 April, 2013 9:47 PM
>     *To:* Roni Even
>     *Cc:* payload@ietf.org <mailto:payload@ietf.org>;
>     draft-ietf-avt-rtp-isac@tools.ietf.org
>     <mailto:draft-ietf-avt-rtp-isac@tools.ietf.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [payload] AD Evaluation: draft-ietf-avt-rtp-isac-04
>
>     Sure. I didn't mean to imply that we need a reference to the
>     codec, in fact the opposite.  I was looking for this document to
>     tell me how to parse out the fields I would feed into the black
>     box of the codec.  They describe the fields, but it seems to me
>     that they need more detail in order for people to know how to
>     parse them out of the payload.
>
>     --Richard
>
>     On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Roni Even <ron.even.tlv@gmail.com
>     <mailto:ron.even.tlv@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Richard,
>
>     As a general comment, for RTP payload specifications we do not
>     require a normative reference to the codec. We only require enough
>     information that will allow an RTP receiver to parse the
>     information and move it to the decoder that can be a black box.
>     This allows us to publish RTP payload specification also for
>     codecs whose specifications are not publically available.
>
>     Still in this case more information can be supplied.
>
>     As for the comments the authors should address them
>
>     Roni Even
>
>     *From:*payload-bounces@ietf.org <mailto:payload-bounces@ietf.org>
>     [mailto:payload-bounces@ietf.org
>     <mailto:payload-bounces@ietf.org>] *On Behalf Of *Richard Barnes
>     *Sent:* 01 April, 2013 8:06 PM
>     *To:* payload@ietf.org <mailto:payload@ietf.org>
>     *Cc:* draft-ietf-avt-rtp-isac@tools.ietf.org
>     <mailto:draft-ietf-avt-rtp-isac@tools.ietf.org>
>     *Subject:* [payload] AD Evaluation: draft-ietf-avt-rtp-isac-04
>
>     Overall, this document looks in pretty good shape.  A couple of
>     comments I would like to get resolved before IETF LC:
>
>     Section 3.1., "Consult source code for details"
>
>     If the details are only specified in the source code, then the
>     source needs to be a normative reference.  And I would prefer to
>     avoid that  :)  Better to specify here how the BEI and FL fields
>     are encoded.   Alternatively, if the codec really does expect a
>     combined BEI/FL field, you could specify such a field here, opaque
>     to the RTP layer.  However, you would at least need to say how the
>     recipient knows where this field starts and stops.
>
>     Section 3.2., "The length of the encoded data is variable and
>     depends on the signal characteristics and the target bit rate."
>
>     However, there's nothing in this section that tells a recipient
>     how to determine what this length is.
>
>     Section 3.3., "... verifying the CRC checksum ..."
>
>     Please specify which CRC function is to be applied, and how the
>     CRC value field is formatted.
>
>     Section 3.3., "If this value would exceed 255 at encoding..."
>
>     It sounds like the LEN field is a single octet unsigned integer.
>      Please state that explicitly.
>
>     Section 9.2. Informative References.
>
>     Better path to source code would be
>     "webrtc/modules/audio_coding/codecs/isac"
>
>     Thanks,
>
>     --Richard
>
>
>
>
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