Re: [Slim] I-D Action: draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language-07.txt

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

Hi Gunnar,

At 11:04 AM +0100 2/25/17, Gunnar Hellström wrote:

>  Fine, I find that we have only issues 5, 6 and 12 still to discuss.
>
>  You did not answer issue 6, use of asymmetrical 
> language rather than unidirectional media. I 
> assume you accepted it.

Yes, I thought I had indicated that, sorry if I didn't.

>
>  On 5, the request to reinsert wording about 
> seeing the speaker in video, it is still a huge 
> difference in specifying a preference to see 
> the speaker for language perception reasons, 
> versus only specifying that I want a video 
> stream for supplementary purposes. With the 
> current wording in version -07, section 5.3 
> says that that combination is undefined. 
> Nothing in the LC discussion indicated that it 
> should be undefined. Why did you suddenly want 
> to delete it? It is useful. Please reinsert 
> with the wording changes I propose.

The email discussion led me to believe that the 
text was controversial.  We need to get the draft 
finished, so it's better to delete controversial 
text than to spend months fighting about it.

>
>  On 12, the meaning of the placement of the asterisk, you ask:
>  "Making the asterisk a purely-advisory hint as 
> to the least-preferred media/language 
> combination seems harmless enough, as it would 
> not be required to support it; however, I'm not 
> sure it provides any benefit: if an offer 
> contains some set of media with language, and 
> the answerer can support all of them, should 
> the answerer only include in its answer those 
> without an asterisk? It seems simpler for the 
> answerer to include everything in the offer 
> that it can support."
>
>  The answering party should aim at answering 
> with one of the languages that is without the 
> asterisk in the offer. Only if the answering 
> party does not have capability in a language 
> without an asterisk, one with asterisk should 
> be selected. Thereby you get the best 
> opportunity to start the call in a language 
> combination that satisfies both users.
>
>  Example: A hard-of-hearing user can just barely 
> conduct spoken calls with persons she knows. 
> From others it is much more reliable to get 
> text.  She calls and declares:
>
>  m=audio
>  a=huml-send:en
>  a=huml-recv:en*
>  m=text
>  a=huml-recv:en
>
>  The answering party with text capabilities sees 
> that matching text for sending is higher 
> preferred than talking, and thus  responds:
>
>  m=audio
>  a=huml-recv:en
>  m=text
>  a=huml-send:en
>
>  The answering party sends the initial greeting 
> in text and the call continues smoothly in well 
> managed langauage/modality combinations.
>
>  Another called party may not have text 
> capabilities, and may therefore select the less 
> favoured alternative with using speech both 
> ways, answering:
>
>  m=audio
>  a=huml-recv:en
>  a=huml-send:en
>  m=text 0
>
>  The answering party starts taking and the 
> parties try as well as possible to manage the 
> call in this less preferred combination that 
> may be less reliable.
>
>  If the placement of the asterisk had no special 
> meaning as it is in version -07, it is a high 
> risk that the answering party in the first 
> example would select to answer with spoken 
> language that would be unreliably received. 
> Time and effort would be spent by speech to 
> make the answering party switch to sending text 
> instead of talking in order to arrange for a 
> more reliable call situation.
>
>  If instead the caller only indicated the most favoured combinations,
>
>  m=audio
>  a=huml-send:en
>  m=text
>  a=huml-recv:en
>
>  Then the answering parties without text 
> capability would not dare to try to answer, and 
> a reasonably successful call would be missed.
>
>  Many other similar realistic examples can be 
> created, where placement of the asterisk(s) 
> would be a sufficient indication of lower 
> preference for language match among 
> alternatives that would make call establishment 
> successful and smooth in many more cases than 
> without this indication opportunity.
>
>  Do you want more examples?
>
>  Please accept proposal 12.

This convinces me that we cannot accept the 
proposed text, as it would introduce complexity 
that the WG explicitly decided to not pursue in 
this draft.  In the examples you provided, it 
seems better for the answerer to include all 
media and languages from the offer that it can 
support.  This is much simpler, has only trivial 
drawbacks (extra media negotiated that might not 
be used), and is what the WG agreed to.

--Randy

>  Den 2017-02-25 kl. 01:32, skrev Randall Gellens:
>>  At 5:35 PM +0100 2/24/17, Gunnar Hellström wrote:
>>
>>>   Den 2017-02-23 kl. 05:15, skrev Randall Gellens:
>>>>   Version -07 addresses all comments except 
>>>> for the unresolved issue of renaming the two 
>>>> attributes which is currently being 
>>>> discussed on the list, and adding a new 
>>>> attribute for bidirectionality.
>>>>
>>>>   Per Dale's suggestion, the draft adds 
>>>> advice that if a call is rejected due to no 
>>>> languages in common, SIP response code 488 
>>>> (Not Acceptable Here) or 606 (Not 
>>>> Acceptable) be used, along with a Warning 
>>>> header field indicating the supported 
>>>> languages.  The draft registers a new entry 
>>>> in the warn-code sub-registry of SIP 
>>>> parameters for this purpose.  The draft also 
>>>> has an expanded set of examples.
>>>>
>>>   Good progress. Good to see the enriched examples chapter 5.5.
>>>   I have a few comments on version -07:
>>>
>>>   1.  Section  4. second line
>>>   ------------old text----------------------
>>>   but is not sufficiently sufficiently
>>>   ------------new text--------------------------
>>>   but is not sufficiently
>>>   ----------end of change 1-----------------
>>>   Motivation: New typo in version -07
>>
>>  Thanks.
>>
>>>
>>>   2. Section 5.2, first line
>>>   ----------------old text-----------------
>>>   This document defines two new media-level ..
>>>   ----------------new text----------------------
>>>   This document defines two media-level ...
>>>   ----------------end of change 2----------------
>>>   Motivation: It was commented that when the 
>>> draft is published, this is not new anymore.
>>>   There are three more occasions of "new" in 
>>> the document that may be modified as well.
>>
>>  OK.
>>
>>>
>>>   3.  5.2 second paragraph
>>>   -------------------old text--------------------------------
>>>   In an offer, the 'humintlang-send' values indicates the language(s)
>>>      the offerer is willing to use when sending using the media, and the
>>>      'humintlang-recv' values indicates the language(s) the offerer is
>>>      willing to use when receiving using the media.
>>>   -----------------new text---------------------------------
>>>   In an offer, the 'humintlang-send' values indicate the language(s)
>>>   the offerer is willing to select from for use when sending using the
>>>   media, and the 'humintlang-recv' values indicate the language(s) the
>>>   offerer is willing to receive one of in the media stream.
>>>   ----------------end of change----------------------------------
>>>   Motivation 1:) change from "indicates" to 
>>> "indicate" in two places to match the new use 
>>> of plural "values".
>>>   Motivation 2:) Be sure to indicate that we 
>>> only intend to negotiate one language per 
>>> media and direction, so that we do not end up 
>>> as unspecified regarding number of matches 
>>> required as the sdp "lang" attribute is.
>>
>>  Reworded.
>>
>>>
>>>   4.  5.2 Second paragraph
>>>   -----------------old text-----------------------
>>>   When a media is intended
>>>      for use in one direction only
>>>   ----------------new text---------------------
>>>   When a media is intended
>>>      for use for language communication in one direction only
>>>   ----------------end of change---------------------------
>>>   Motivation: Deletion of a note in this 
>>> sentence made it less obvious that we are 
>>> only talking about directions of use of 
>>> language communication, and not about 
>>> establishing asymmetric media connections. 
>>> Therefore add this clarification.
>>
>>  Reworded.
>>
>>>
>>>   5.  5.2 Deleted paragraph 6 before "Clients acting on behalf..."
>>>   ----------reinsert modified paragraph----------------------------
>>>   While signed language tags are used with a video stream to
>>>   indicate sign language, a spoken language tag for a video stream
>>>   indicates a request or offer to see the speaker, when that is of
>>>   importance for language perception.
>>>   -------------end of change-------------------------------------------
>>>   Motivation: There was in the LC mail 
>>> exchange a discussion about sharpening up the 
>>> specification of use of "unusual 
>>> combinations".
>>>   There was no agreement to delete them all. 
>>> The one described in this paragraph is the 
>>> main one that has widespread use and needs to 
>>> be clearly specified for use by a large 
>>> number of hard-of-hearing and deaf users.
>>
>>  The text as it is now does not prohibit 
>> anything and explicitly mentions negotiating 
>> supplemental video by omitting language 
>> attributes on a video media.
>>
>>>
>>>   6.  5.2 Sixth paragraph
>>>   --------------------current text--------------------
>>>   (or for unidirectional streams, one of)
>>>   ------------------new text ------------------------
>>>   (or for asymmetrical use of languages, one of)
>>>   -----------------end of change----------------------
>>>   Motivation: We are not primarily talking 
>>> about enabled transmission directions of the 
>>> streams, but about language use in the 
>>> streams. We do not want to limit the media 
>>> stream directions just because we do not 
>>> specify an initial language to use for that 
>>> direction. There are other usage of media, 
>>> and there may even be occasional use of 
>>> language in the direction, just not worth 
>>> mentioning as an initial and preferred use. 
>>> The suggested change should make that clear.
>>>
>>>   7.   5.3 Next to last paragraph
>>>   ------------------old text------------------------------
>>>   a list of supported languages.
>>>   -------------------new text-------------------------
>>>   a list of supported languages, media and directions.
>>>   -------------------end of change----------------
>>>   Motivation: It is not sufficient to know 
>>> which languages are supported, it is also 
>>> essential to know in which media they are 
>>> supported and in which directions. (media 
>>> could be replaced with modality, but the 
>>> media can become ambigous then, so use media 
>>> here to be brief.
>>
>>  I don't know that we can require this, but 
>> I'll add SHOULD kist supported languages and 
>> media. Demanding direction as well might be 
>> too unwieldy.
>>
>>>
>>>   8.      5.3, last line
>>>   --------------old text----------------------------------
>>>    Supported languages are: es, en"
>>>   --------------new text-------------------------------
>>>    Supported languages are: es, en 
>>> transmission in audio; es, en reception in 
>>> audio"
>>>   ----------------------------------------------------------
>>>   Motivation: Same as for 7.
>>
>>  Fixed as above.
>>
>>>
>>>   9.  5.4 Undefined combinations
>>>   ----------------------------old text--------------------------------------
>>>      The behavior when specifying a non-signed language tag for a video
>>>      media stream, or a signed language tag for an audio or text media
>>>      stream, is not defined.
>>>   ---------------------------new 
>>> text-----------------------------------------
>>>   There is no way specified for indicating use 
>>> of text based language in a video media 
>>> stream.
>>>   There is no meaning assigned to 
>>> specification of  sign language in an audio 
>>> or text media stream.
>>>   --------------------------end of change-------------------------------
>>>   Motivation: Seeing the speaker in video is 
>>> an important combination reinserted above in 
>>> section 5.2.
>>>   This section therefore needed rewording to not include that combination.
>>
>>  The draft explicitly mentions video for supplemental purposes.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   10.     6.2 Last sentence
>>>   -----------------current text---------------------
>>>   Supported languages are: [list of supported languages]."
>>>   -----------------new text------------------------
>>>   Supported languages and media and 
>>> transmission directions are:[list of 
>>> supported languages and media and 
>>> transmission directions.]"
>>>   -----------------end of change--------------------------
>>>   Motivation: Same as for 7.
>>
>>  Fixed as above.
>>
>>>
>>>   11.  6.1 MUX Category
>>>   ----------old text in two locations-------------------
>>>   MUX Category:  normal
>>>   ---------new text in same two locations--------------
>>>   Mux Category:  NORMAL
>>>   ---------end of change-----------------
>>>   Motivation: Follow RFC 4566bis and IANA habits regarding use of capitals
>>
>>  Fixed.
>>
>>>
>>>   12.  5.3
>>>   -------------old text-----------------
>>>   5.3 No Language in Common
>>>   -------------new text----------------
>>>   5.3 Preference parameter
>>>   ------------end of change 1 in 5.3---------------
>>
>>  The section is more than just the asterisk, it 
>> also advises use of specific SIP response 
>> codes if the call is failed.
>>
>>>
>>>   -------------old text-in 5.3, second 
>>> paragraph-------------------------------
>>>   The mechanism for indicating this preference is that, in an offer, if
>>>   the last character of any of the 'humintlang-recv' or 'humintlang-
>>>   send' values is an asterisk, this indicates 
>>> a request to not fail the call.
>>>   --------------------------new text-------------------------------
>>>   The mechanism for indicating this preference is that, in an offer, if
>>>      the last character of any of the 'humintlang-recv' or 'humintlang-
>>>      send' values is an asterisk, this 
>>> indicates a request to not fail the call.
>>>   The asterisk should be attached to attributes with languages of lower
>>>   preference to be matched if such difference can be specified. Thereby
>>>   the location of the asterisk can be used to support the decision on
>>>   which languages to use in the call.
>>>   ---------------------------end of change 2 
>>> in 5.3--------------------------------------
>>>   Motivation: There has not yet been any 
>>> conclusion for my proposal no 5 in the IETF 
>>> LC comments of Feb 12.
>>>   This is a dramatically reduced version that 
>>> may be easier to accept at this stage, still 
>>> covering one of the missing functionalities 
>>> in the draft.
>>>   The asterisk is used as a preference 
>>> parameter in the attributes. Thereby the 
>>> proposed title change on 5.3
>>>   With this additional rule about where the 
>>> asterisk(s) are placed, the answering parties 
>>> get good clues about the preferences between 
>>> alternatives presented by the offeror. The 
>>> chance to set up calls with satisfied users 
>>> increase dramatically compared to letting the 
>>> answering party select by chance between 
>>> alternatives.
>>
>>  Making the asterisk a purely-advisory hint as 
>> to the least-preferred media/language 
>> combination seems harmless enough, as it would 
>> not be required to support it; however, I'm 
>> not sure it provides any benefit: if an offer 
>> contains some set of media with language, and 
>> the answerer can support all of them, should 
>> the answerer only include in its answer those 
>> without an asterisk? It seems simpler for the 
>> answerer to include everything in the offer 
>> that it can support.
>>
>
>  --
>  -----------------------------------------
>  Gunnar Hellström
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Randall Gellens
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