Re: [Slim] Moving forward on draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language

Paul said:

"ISTM the real problem is with language tags in video media. These could
indicate that the lip motions of people in the video reflect speakers of
the tagged language. Or they could indicate written text in the specified
language is embedded in the video. (Could be closed caption text or just
signage.) Or (in the case of signed language tags) it could indicate use of
sign language in the video.

But in the end, if this is declarative about what is being sent then it
isn't clear whether it is important. If it is an indication of what is
being requested, then it is more important."

[BA] Yes, that is the core of the problem.  As has been noted earlier, the
modality isn't indicated explicitly. I'm not sure whether we have enough
experience to know whether this represents an important deficit.  But we
could indicate that the problem potentially exists and that further work
might be needed.

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:53 AM, Paul Kyzivat <paul.kyzivat@comcast.net>
wrote:

> On 11/20/17 1:41 PM, Bernard Aboba wrote:
>
> [BA]  This is where the ground gets less solid - we don't really have a
>> general mechanism for distinguishing spoken and written modality among
>> non-signed languages. Perhaps we should just say "language tags in audio
>> media indicate spoken modality and language tags in text media indicate
>> written modality".
>>
>
> ISTM the real problem is with language tags in video media. These could
> indicate that the lip motions of people in the video reflect speakers of
> the tagged language. Or they could indicate written text in the specified
> language is embedded in the video. (Could be closed caption text or just
> signage.) Or (in the case of signed language tags) it could indicate use of
> sign language in the video.
>
> But in the end, if this is declarative about what is being sent then it
> isn't clear whether it is important. If it is an indication of what is
> being requested, then it is more important.
>
>         Thanks,
>         Paul
>
>
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