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

[Randall Gellens <[e-mail]>]

I will reword the text to be descriptive rather than normative.  The 
intent of the text is to point out that specifying language (not 
modality) combinations that are more difficult to match than 
necessary will likely not lead to ideal results.  Difficult 
combinations could in theory be handled by bridging in additional 
translators, but human language translation adds its own set of 
difficulties.

At 2:50 AM +0000 1/7/18, Bernard Aboba wrote:

>  Paul said:
>
>  "I agree that this is really just some wisdom that is being 
> encouraged, and so should not be normative."
>
>  [BA] Agree that it should not be normative. However, the point 
> about subjectivity still applies. I'm not sure what value the 
> SHOULD NOT provides, even if it is in lower case.  For example, is 
> it "difficult" to ask to receive American English in audio but to 
> send ASL in video or American English in text, because the user is 
> speech-impaired, but not hearing-impaired?  Isn't the whole point 
> of the negotiation to determine what languages can be mutually 
> accommodated?
>
>  On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 6:51 AM, Paul Kyzivat 
> <<mailto:[e-mail]>[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>  On 1/6/18 9:13 AM, Alvaro Retana wrote:
>
>  Alvaro Retana has entered the following ballot position for
>  draft-ietf-slim-negotiating-human-language-19: No Objection
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>  COMMENT:
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>
>  Thanks for writing an interesting document!
>
>  Given that this document doesn't mandate the behavior in the case 
> of not having
>  languages in common, why does it matter if the combination is "difficult to
>  match together" or not?  I'm wondering about this piece of text (from 5.2):
>
>      ...The
>      two SHOULD NOT be set to languages which are difficult to match
>      together (e.g., specifying a desire to send audio in Hungarian and
>      receive audio in Portuguese will make it difficult to successfully
>      complete the call).
>
>  I don't understand how "difficult to match" can be enforced from a normative
>  point of view.  Difficulty seems to be a subjective criteria -- the example
>  shows a pair that I would consider difficult too (I don't speak Hungarian!),
>  but other pairings could still be difficult for me but easy for 
> others.  Using
>  "SHOULD NOT" (instead of "MUST NOT") implies that there are cases in which it
>  is ok to do it (again, probably subjectively).  It seems to me that 
> the "SHOULD
>  NOT" could be a simple "should not".
>
>
>  I agree that this is really just some wisdom that is being 
> encouraged, and so should not be normative.
>
>          Thanks,
>          Paul
>
>
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