Re: [Slim] Indication of modality alternatives in draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language -Issue #46

[Bernard Aboba <[e-mail]>]

Randall said:

"The existing text is talking about which language is selected for use in a
media stream should that media stream be used for interactive
communication; the proposed wording instead talks about a language that may
or may not be used in a media stream, which doesn't seem correct to me."

[BA] Yes, that is how it came across to me as well.

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 5:00 AM, Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> At 10:58 AM +0200 10/14/17, Gunnar Hellström wrote:
>
>  In order to not create complicated sentences but still having the wording
>> match our intentions, I want to change the proposed resolution for Issue #
>> 46 Change 1 to:
>>
>>  ---Change 1 in 5.2, first paragraph----------------    ------old
>> text---------    This document defines two media-level attributes starting
>> with       'hlang' (short for "human interactive language") to negotiate
>> which       human language is selected for use in each interactive media
>> stream.    ------------new text--------------------    This document
>> defines two media-level attributes starting with       'hlang' (short for
>> "human interactive language") to negotiate which       human language is
>> selected for potential use in each media stream.
>>    -------end of change 1-------
>>
>>  That matches the "if" in paragraph 3, and it is also valid for both the
>> offers and answers, while paragraph 3 is only for the answer.
>>  Please accept it, it is of importance for proper understanding of our
>> intentions.
>>
>
> The existing text is talking about which language is selected for use in a
> media stream should that media stream be used for interactive
> communication; the proposed wording instead talks about a language that may
> or may not be used in a media stream, which doesn't seem correct to me.
> Since we already have text (as noted earlier) that explicitly says that not
> all negotiated media streams need be used, I don't see a problem with
> leaving the text as is.
>
>
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