Subject: [avtext] Summary of proposed updates to RTP Taxonomy regarding CLUE terms

From: Bo Burman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 12:24:51 +0000

Apologies for the cross-post of information, but there has currently been a discussion on the CLUE mailing list regarding text in the Taxonomy that refers to CLUE terms, which now seems to have concluded. This is a summary of the proposed CLUE-related changes to be included in the next version of Taxonomy (soon to be sent out):

1.       Media Capture is the CLUE term used for either a Taxonomy Media Capture or a Media Source, depending on in which context the term is used.

2.       Individual Encoding is the CLUE term used for the configuration information needed to perform a Taxonomy Media Encoder transformation.

3.       Capture Encoding is the CLUE term used for a Taxonomy Encoded Stream related to CLUE specific semantic information.

4.       A CLUE Endpoint describes exactly one Taxonomy Participant and one or more related End Points.

5.       It should be clarified that a Taxonomy Participant can be associated with several End Points, but an End Point can be associated to only one Participant at any single point in time.

6.       It should be clarified that a single synchronization context can be shared among several End Points associated with the same Participant, but that a single End Point can handle several synchronization contexts.

7.       Taxonomy should contain some text on Multipoint Control Unit (MCU), but not specifically for CLUE. It could for example say that it is the central node in any type of star topology conference (likely with a reference to topologies-update), and that it describes a Participant (conference focus) and one or more related End Points (sometimes one per conference Participant).

Cheers,
Bo