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Re: [Slim] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language-19: (with COMMENT)

Randall Gellens <rg+ietf@randy.pensive.org> Mon, 08 January 2018 19:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Slim] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language-19: (with COMMENT)
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At 1:36 PM -0500 1/8/18, Paul Kyzivat wrote:

>  On 1/8/18 1:10 PM, Randall Gellens wrote:
>
>>      The term "negotiation" is used here rather than "indication" because
>>      human language (spoken/written/signed) can be negotiated in the same
>>      manner as media (audio/text/video) and codecs.  For example, if we
>>      think of a user calling an airline reservation center, the user may
>>      have a set of languages he or she speaks, with perhaps preferences
>>      for one or a few, while the airline reservation center will support a
>>      fixed set of languages.  Negotiation should select the user's most
>>      preferred language that is supported by the call center.  Both sides
>>      should be aware of which language was negotiated.  This is
>>      conceptually similar to the way other aspects of each media stream
>>      are negotiated using SDP (e.g., media type and codecs).
>
>  Certainly it will be common for the choices are mutually exclusive. 
> For instance, a caller *might* offer both French and Chinese. The 
> callee (a call center) may have agents that speak each, but may 
> well not have any agents that speak both.
>
>  OTOH, it is *possible* that they do have somebody who supports 
> both. If so, seems like it would be good to indicate that both are 
> supported.

Yes, although the additional gain in functionality is small relative 
to the additional complexity.  The draft explicitly rules this out of 
scope.  Section 3 says:

    (Negotiating multiple simultaneous languages within a media stream is
    out of scope of this document.)

This could, of course, be added in a future extension or revision.


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>  	Paul
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