Re: [splices] FW: New Version Notification for draft-loreto-splices-disaggregated-media-02.txt

["Worley, Dale R (Dale)" <[e-mail]>]

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From: Salvatore Loreto [[e-mail]]

what you show in the below diagrams are media streams not dialog, isn't it?

if so, the "near-end managed" is not really clear to me:
what the UA, the one managing all of its UAs, is supposed to do with the
media streams
that passes trough it?
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The drawings are taken from your draft, and yes, they aren't truly parallel to each other.

In the "near-end managed" version, called "Centralized scenario" in fig. 2, the
bundles of lines represent SIP dialogs, the individual lines are the media streams
as represented in the SDP carries in the dialogs.  In that sense, all 4 streams go
"though" the two coordinating UAs, in that those UAs pass through the SDP lines
that describe them.  Of course, the media packets themselves go directly from one
endpoint UA to another.

In the "far-end managed" version, called "distributed scenario" near fig. 9, there
are two groups of UAs, and there are 4 SIP dialogs between them, each dialog responsible
for one of the 4 media streams.  So the lines represent SIP dialogs as well as media streams.

The overall idea though, is that disaggregation (or aggregation, if you want to describe it)
is being done at both ends; both Alice and Bob have multiple UA devices they wish to operate
as if they were single UAs.

Having a mechanism that works in this situation should be a requirement, IMO.

Dale